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In 1984, striking British miners found an unlikely ally: a London Lgbt group. The new movie Pride - which has already sparked whispers of award-season buzz after its crowd-pleasing premieres in Cannes and Toronto - chronicles this bond. People sat down at the Toronto International Film Festival with three of the protesters who inspired the film and learned that the partnership didn't end when the strike did. Mike Jackson, 60, co-founded Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners after the miners put out a call for help. Lgsm then decided to raise money and back the working-class community of Dulais Valley, in South Wales,...

In 1984, striking British miners found an unlikely ally: a London Lgbt group. The new movie Pride - which has already sparked whispers of award-season buzz after its crowd-pleasing premieres in Cannes and Toronto - chronicles this bond. People sat down at the Toronto International Film Festival with three of the protesters who inspired the film and learned that the partnership didn't end when the strike did. Mike Jackson, 60, co-founded Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners after the miners put out a call for help. Lgsm then decided to raise money and back the working-class community of Dulais Valley, in South Wales,...

“Audiences will have their sense of humanity refreshed.”

Actors Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Dominic West, director Matthew Warchus and the filmmakers of Pride discuss the background of this emotional story in the new featurette.

Critics are already cheering the film. “Breakout British hit is a warm, witty triumph,” says Digital Spy.

The Hollywood News writes, “Pride really is a thing of beauty.”

Pride is inspired by an extraordinary true story.

It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all.

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It’s an idea so simple it makes you wonder why no one had thought of it till now. A lot of filmmakers make money on the side as a videographer for special events, weddings in particular, but do those men and women that capture those memories ever go back into their editing suite and think about what might have happened to those couples? Are they still together? Did they have kids? Was their road to marital bliss easy or hard?

Doug Block, a part-time wedding photographer, one day became curious about all this and made it the basis for his latest documentary, 112 Weddings, which revisits some of the couples that make up the various weddings that he’s shot over his career.

To Block’s credit, he takes the relatively cutsey concept of going through his filmography of wedding days and reliving the highs and lows and fashion and trends,...