Mr. Bates vs the Post Office

DVD 2024

Based on the true story of one man's fight against one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Starting more than 20 years ago, the Post Office wrongly dismissed, harassed, and prosecuted hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters for theft, fraud, and false accounting. Sub Postmasters were told they were the only ones to report a problem with a new computer system called Horizon. When Alan Bates was fired, he refused to accep...

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Bates, Alan, 1954- Fiction

Class actions (Civil procedure) England Fiction

Judicial error Fiction

Post office buildings England Fiction

Postal service England Fiction

Postmasters England Fiction

Software failures England Fiction

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ISBN:

9781531717124

Description:

2 videodiscs (240 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Mister Bates versus the Post Office
Mister Bates vs the Post Office
Mr. Bates versus the Post Office

Notes:

"SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) are a function of the disc and serve the same purpose as closed captions"--container
Originally released as a motion picture in 2024
Title from container
Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Shaun Dooley, Ian Hart, Alex Jennings, Katherine Kelly, Will Mellor, Amit Shah, Krupa Pattani, Lia Williams
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic
For private home use only
Audio track in English, captions in English
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)

Contents:

Disc 1. Episodes 1-2
Disc 2. Episodes 3-4
The real story of Mr. Bates vs the Post Office documentary

Control Number:

3316849

UPC:

841887049085

Other Authors:

Dolan, Monica, actor
Dooley, Shaun, actor
Hart, Ian, 1964- actor
Hesmondhalgh, Julie, actor
Hughes, Gwyneth, screenwriter
Jennings, Alex, actor
Jones, Toby, 1966- actor
Kelly, Katherine, 1979- actor
Mellor, Will, 1976- actor
PBS Distribution (Firm), distributor
Pattani, Krupa, actor
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), broadcaster
Shah, Amit, 1981- actor
Strong, James (Television director), television director
Williams, Lia, actor

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