THE RIOTS 2011: ONE WEEK IN AUGUST

The Riots 2011: One Week In August
Monday 09 August 2021
BBC Two 
21:00

Director: James Jones
Executive Producer: Darren Kemp

​2011 saw the largest wave of disorder in the United Kingdom since the 1980s.

This revelatory film hears from the people who experienced the riots up close and personal.

A decade on, we look back at the Summer of 2011 through the eyes of those whose lives have never been the same since. 

In a series of candid interviews, we hear the story from all angles.

​Convicted rioters, frontline police, a judge, a government advisor and a grieving father look back at that week in August, and the years that followed, to piece together what really happened and why.