The Blockbusters
'... they can design them, they can build them, they can pay for them, but nobody will ever know what a tower block is like until they've actually lived in one....'
Housing authorities can no longer paper over the cracks of the 60s social disaster, system-built tower blocks that are literally splitting at the seams. Setting an alarming precedent, east
London's Newham Council has ordered the total evacuation of tenants from a nine-block estate. It's a victory for reason - but only after concerted pressure from 'The Blockbusters' -the Newham Tower Block
Tenants' Campaign. This is the story of their constant fight against the misery and terror of tower block life - and the lessons they learn in the process. Film cameraman
PHILIP BONHAM CARTER
Film editor STEPHEN SAUNDERS Director MARY ROUTH
Producer JEREMY GIBSON
Made by Newham Tower Block Tenants' Campaign with the Community Programme Unit.
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