Pride

Pride (2014) is a British comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Matthew Warchus and drawn from a remarkable true story. In the summer of 1984, a group of LGBT activists in London began raising money for families of striking miners. Their reasoning was straightforward: Thatcher's government was grinding down both communities. That made them allies, whether the miners liked it or not.

The National Union of Mineworkers was not sure it liked it. When the union hesitated to publicly accept the funds, the activists loaded into a van and drove to a small Welsh mining village to hand the money over in person. The ensemble includes Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Andrew Scott, Dominic West and Paddy Considine — all of them clearly committed to the material. The film handles the friction between the two groups with more humour than sentiment, and that restraint is exactly what earns the emotional scenes their weight.

It won the Queer Palm at Cannes in 2014 and found wide audiences who had never heard of the original campaign. Watch Pride (2014) online on iFILM.