The Great North
Seen it?2024 | 52 min | Documentary
Sunday Safe Betearly ratingWhy it’s a Sunday Safe Bet
Critics loved it (100% on Rotten Tomatoes). A safe bet when you want something reliable.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for the curious.
- The mood
- Eye-opening.
- The pace
- Moves along nicely, at 52 min.
- What might put you off
- Nothing much for most grown-ups.
Beginning at the industrial revolution of the ‘great north’, Jenn Nkiru draws lines between peoples, cities, countries, buildings, movements, bodies and spaces(s) using a mixture of archive materials and new footage. There is little stillness as we are pushed and pulled through Black histories and communities across the city of Manchester and beyond. Nkiru has termed this filmmaking process “cosmic archeology”, and it is grounded in Afro-surrealism, experimental film and the Black arts movement.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsVery strong
100% on Rotten Tomatoes, 77 on Metacritic
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
Awards data unavailable, so this isn't counted
- Reach & staying powerSolid
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far
- Buzz & cultural impactSolid
About 186K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Jenn Nkiru
- Aaron Orr
- Adele Jones
- Akil Scafe-Smith
- Alfonso Buller
- Andrew Jones
- Ann Sargé
- Annika Campbell-Hypolite
- Dammy Aminu
- Denise Southworth
- Edmond Smith