The video starts with a caption explaining that on 6 February 1985 police and soldiers evicted 200 peace campers from a disused airfield at Molesworth in Cambridgeshire due to government plans to station US cruise missiles at the base. The documentary follows CND demonstrators from the East Midlands marching from Chilwell to the base to protest against these evictions and the nuclear plans for the site. We see CND demonstrators marching over Trent Bridge in Nottingham and gathering outside County Hall at West Bridgford and a similar protest outside De Montfort Hall in Leicester. We then see various scenes of the marchers walking to the base inter-cut with interviews about the protest. We hear from a man who was growing crops on the land to send to Eritrea prior to his eviction; a local land-owner who is not happy at the encroachment of the barbed wire and the huge police and army presence; and also from the Bishop of Huntingdon. When the marchers arrive at the base we see their protest as massed ranks of police officers watch from behind the fences.
Thanks: Robin Ward; Tim & Bridie Wallis; Ian & Jennie Hartley; the Bishop of Huntingdon; Karen & Theresa
Funded by: Leicester City Council Peace Action Group; Leicester CND; Nottingham Molesworth Action Group; Concord Films; Leicester Molesworth Action Group; Leicester City Centre CND
Further assistance from: Christine Pocklington; Jeanne Burton; Graham Bald; Avid Video; Alternative Image Productions; Jim Rae; Nottingham Video Project; Sue & Suzanne; Sue Pritchard.
Produced by the Circle Video Project in association with Jerky Video