When Havoc Struck - The Children Of Aberfan - 1978 TV Series Glenn Ford
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- Опубликовано: 21 фев 2015
- Here is the complete "The Children Of Aberfan" episode of "When Havoc Struck" from the 1978 TV series. Includes dramatic scenes of the October 21, 1966 coal mine disaster in Wales.
Thank you to the person who runs this channel for sharing these old documentaries. They’re treasures, particularly for someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s and remember shows like this.
Found this to be very respectful and dignified. God only knows what a modern remake would be like. RIP to those lost and peace to those that survived.
Over the last 2 weeks there have been some very good programmes on the TV. All tastefully done.
From a Welshman who remembers this as a child. I saw in the documentary among the flowers at the funeral, a message of sympathy from the people of San Remo. I'd never seen that before. Thank you San Remo. It means a lot.
This older documentary is important, as it shows the mines and tips as they were. They are good now. It is difficult to imagine what happened without seeing.
I have full admiration for the people of Aberfan. They are in my thoughts and prayers and myself and my son have paid our respects last week
I have to say the American presenter here is absolutely fantastic
I agree, the presenter is Hollywood actor Glenn Ford.
I agree
A well presented and balanced programme, not a great lover of american TV but this shows there are times when they get it just right.
I feel truly blessed that my uncle Colin served and I'm truly sad for all who lost their loved ones 🙏may god bless them all much respect for sharing this program with us the younger generations of the world 🙏👍🏻❤️💙
Glenn did a wonderful job in presenting this. I just wish they had done more in what the people had to go through from the Mone owners, committee's abd government. RIP dear angels. God be with the survivors and families of Aberfan.
There is another video that covers that aspect, no need for another. This is very solemn, dignified and non-political.
I think they could have found time to mention that part of the funds collected to support the families had to be used towards the clearance of the remaining slurry heaps above the village, as well as the disgraceful attitude of the NCB and the authorities in general in not recognising the negligence that led to the tragedy. It was well documented that there was a stream running under this tip, making it unstable and likely to slide in bad weather conditions.
Agreed. Their cruelty added to the suffering of these poor unfortunate people.
I remember this. Such a tragedy. All of the UK remembers it.
To the honored and beloved men and women of the Cymry, the Scotti, the Irish; the Cumbrian, Cornish and Celt; the Orcadian, Shetlander, Hebridean and Highlander - Once again, on this day of solemn occasion, we take time, out of our lives, to remember the children, the women, and the men, whose lives were lost, to the ever encroaching desires of greed and incompetence. At Aberfan. At Sellafield. At every place where the poor are given less value, by the rich, than the land upon which they struggle to survive. The powers that be - the same powers that were and have been in the past - have only pretended, over the years, to care; but nothing truly has changed. Their wants, are still more important, to them, than the needs of the people, who they, themselves, for more than a hundred years, have forced, through obfuscation, to live, in poverty and press, beneath them. The lives of the poor, and of the working class, and even of the lower middle class, are still, today, treated as if they have no value, to anyone of importance, and less value than the properties of Earth, upon which can bring yet more wealth, to make the rich yet more richer. Corporations care not for people, other than as automatons to their dirty work: People to be tossed in the trash, when they are not longer useful. That Archaic Parliament of Westminster, controlled, by the Empire's Corporate Elite, for more years than any one of us have been alive, and that Ancient, Unelected Primogeniture of Elizabeth, Charles and William, beholden, also for life, to that same Corporate Empire, are no different. -- They will never acknowledge that they are equals to the People. They refuse to see themselves in their proper role - as humble servants to the People; and to the Laws of the People. To them, you but exist to work for them: They do not exist to work for you. The purpose of your life, to them, is to be but their servant, serving to the whims of their valueless wants and desires: not theirs to be a servant to you. This has never changed. It is the way of the English Empire, of every monarch of the English Empire, for more than a thousand years. --The Saxons. The Normans. The English. The Germans. They are no different to each other. They have all been exactly the same. And every decade, for more than 60 years, your rights, as human beings, grows weaker and weaker. -- Have you forgotten how you were treated in the past? Have you forgotten the decades - and centuries - of enforced poverty? Scratching, in the dirt, for sustenance and survival? Being treated, by the English Monarchs, and the English Parliament, and the English Lords, as less than citizens - and as less than Human? .. Do you want to be slaves again? As your grandparents once were? .. Or do you want to be free of English Rule? As your Ancestors once were? When the Celts ruled our lands, with equality and justice, for all people living upon our land, and sharing their bounties of the Earth, freely, amongst the entire Celtic family, where no one starved, and no one lived homeless, and all children were treated with love and kindness and care for their future - We Celts are not the heathens the English pretend us to be - it is the Saxons and the English and the Germans who pretend to be our Monarchs who are the true heathens - their religion is not of love, and equality - their religion is for conquest and rule - and for 300 years, they have practiced their rule .. over the whole of the Celtic Nation .. If you're tired of our poor and our broken always getting screwed by the "Royal Family", screwed by Parliament and screwed by the Posh, Rich Elite, who are never held accountable for their multitudinous crimes - of murder, of rape, of racketeering, and of inhumane abuses toward innocent little children - then we must stand and protect one another; we must rise up in defense of others, in defense of the weak and powerless, and in defense of our people, and our rights, as human beings, in full control of our own destiny, and the lives and welfare of our own people .. ~ Y Mab Darogan. Ar gyfer Cymru. Ar gyfer yr Alban. Ar gyfer Iwerddon. I Brydain. ~ B .. ~
So sad to watch, even now it is deeply disturbing.
This is heartbreaking.
Very,very sad!
So sad ,to watch.but very well narrated from glen Ford.,I was ten when this disaster happened .shocked and saddened every one .i remember waking that morning leaving a big black shape in .y dreams .not knowing then what we were all about to hear .
Liz Durham.
Awful. Rest in peace and love to their families xxx
Went there on the 50th anniversary of the disaster. The locals, although don't want to forget those lost (rightly so), just generally want to get on with life & have Aberfan to be an ex-mining community.
What was said by that one mother is so true. You don't really know how to heal from death. Only time numbs the constant pain.
Rip and well done the usa on a fab documentary rip to them all sitting here crying ion 2020 rest little angels .
I live just a mile away from Aberfan. I went there that afternoon, after my school had broken up for half term, to help clean up a house that the slurry had gone right through, I wasn't really aware at that time of exactly what had happened, only that a tip had collapsed. Last year one of the chapels used as a mortuary after the disaster was deliberately burnt down.
that's awful. Did they get the culprits?
In the last 2 weeks there have loads of programmes on TV about the disaster because it's the 50 year anniversary. After years of campaigning by the people of Aberfan the NCB was finally found to be a fault
Sheila Spencer did you know the Evans owned the Aberfan grocery store, Karl and Annette were the children,. They were in it, mother serving soup Karl was injured
edmund184 yes the lad was found . He had mental health problems and therefore didn’t really understand the significance of his actions
That is sad and hope they found the person(s) responsible.
Very good.
R.I.P Plant annwyl.
"Life goes on here" because it wants to....
that shows how dangerous coal mining can be.
It shows how dangerous incompetent managers can be. Tip 7 was five times its legal height as it loomed over a school being soaked from above by rain and from beneath by a known spring. It was known to be dangerous and people pleaded for the tips to be removed years before this senseless tragedy. It took 31 years for the people responsible to be identified and none were punished. Nearly half of the children between 7 and 11 in the village were killed by negligence.
One of my gr grandfathers was a Welsh coal miner.
🙏🙏💔💔💔💔
It's pronounced Abervan.
It was quiet because God was crying.
God? Crying? Stop with the blasphemy
A big American star like Glenn Ford presented this I suppose because of his welsh background.
maybe,but he presented this series on many other disasters
He was a Canadian not American. Although he served with American forces in WW2
I can find nothing about a Welsh connection on Wikepedia
He was an American citizen. Born in Quebec, sure. Until he was, what, 9? Served on more than three occasions in the armed services for the USA. I'd say he was definitely an "American" by any standard other than place of birth. Hell, if birth alone makes it, then my exgirlfriend is Martian.
I'm not saying he was welsh, but glen fords fathers first name GWILYM is welsh
Canadien
A good documentary, but it would have been nice if Glen had pronounced Aberfan properly, F = V.
it's a shame nobody from the production picked up on it
There’s a cold place in hell for the members of the National Coal Board.