Margaret Thatcher

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Born: October 13, 1925 – April 8, 2013
From: Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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Biography

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. As prime minister, she implemented economic policies known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist before becoming a barrister. She was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her secretary of state for education and science in his 1970–1974 government. In 1975, she defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become leader of the opposition, the first woman to lead a major political party in the UK. On becoming prime minister after winning the 1979 general election, Thatcher introduced a series of economic policies intended to reverse high inflation and Britain's struggles in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and an oncoming recession. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised greater individual liberty, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Her popularity in her first years in office waned amid recession and rising unemployment. Victory in the 1982 Falklands War and the recovering economy brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her landslide re-election in 1983. She survived an assassination attempt by the Provisional IRA in the 1984 Brighton hotel bombing and achieved a political victory against the National Union of Mineworkers in the 1984–85 miners' strike. In 1986, Thatcher oversaw the deregulation of UK financial markets, leading to an economic boom, in what came to be known as the Big Bang. Thatcher was re-elected for a third term with another landslide in 1987, but her subsequent support for the Community Charge (also known as the "poll tax") was widely unpopular, and her increasingly Eurosceptic views on the European Community were not shared by others in her cabinet. She resigned as prime minister and party leader in 1990, after a challenge was launched to her leadership, and was succeeded by John Major, her chancellor of the Exchequer. After retiring from the Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher (of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire) which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords. In 2013, she died of a stroke at the Ritz Hotel, London, at the age of 87. A polarising figure in British politics, Thatcher is nonetheless viewed favourably in historical rankings and public opinion of British prime ministers. Her tenure constituted a realignment towards neoliberal policies in Britain; the complex legacy attributed to this shift continues to be debated into the 21st century.

Works

74 films

Let Poland Be Poland

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Kenny Dalglish

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Brexit: The Uncivil War

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Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

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Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

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England 79

2019

Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins

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The Dark Side of Porn: The Real Animal Farm

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Thatcher's Not Dead

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Influence

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Prelúdio

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Freddie Mercury: The Final Act

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I, Dolours

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Blackadder: Back & Forth

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Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation

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Ice Under His Feet

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Laissez-faire

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In the Grip of Gazprom

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The Shock Doctrine

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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

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Kids' TV: The Surprising Story

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Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

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Shadow World

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McEnroe

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Rude Boy

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The New Ten Commandments

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The Emperor's New Clothes

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Strike: When Britain Went to War

2003

The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World

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Maggie and Me

2013

Laboratory Greece

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Empire of the Censors

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Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire

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The Pinochet Case

20017.1

Soul Boys of the Western World

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Palme

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The Real Spies Among Friends

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A Very British Sex Scandal: The Love Child & the Secretary

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How to Win the TV Debate

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To Kill the Cabinet

1986

Meeting Gorbachev

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Reagan

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Reagan

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How to Win the US Presidency

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How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister

2007

1979: Big Bang of the Present

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Portillo on Thatcher

2008

Best Ever Spitting Image

2006

The Englishwoman's Wardrobe

1986

Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady

20126.6

The Red and the Blue

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Remembering Reagan at His Ranch

2004

In Search of Tony Blair

2004

The Downing Street Patient

2004

The Falklands War: The Untold Story

19878.7

Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister

2013

Degeneration Punk

19978.0

Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain

2013

Rockin' Ronnie

1986

Hillsborough

20168.8

How to Be Prime Minister

1996

Nazi Hunters: The Real Walk-In

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Westminster's Secret Service

1995

Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain

2021

The Swap

2016

Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface

20248.0

Satans mördare

1995

Margaret Thatcher, l'enfance d'un chef

2007

Cabinet Confidential

2001

Margaret Thatcher: Serving the Crown

2022

Odd Man Out: A Film Portrait of Enoch Powell

19957.0

Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary

2013

Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major

20232.0

The Lady is Not for Turning: An Unauthorized Story on Margaret Thatcher

2011