Greenham Common - Women Against Missiles | ARTE.tv Documentary

In the early 1980s a group of women in Britain, concerned about the prospect of nuclear war, got together to oppose American nuclear missiles at the Greenham Common military base. They marched, they occupied, and they galvanised a movement. At the end of the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War, the tension between East and West was all the more tangible because Western Europe was within range of Soviet nuclear warheads. In December 1979, NATO decided on a programme to deploy more than 500 American missiles on the Old Continent. This escalation in the use of nuclear weapons plunged part of the population into the fear of an atomic war. In the UK, women came together to share their fear of the future and decided to take action. On 27 August 1981, they organised a march across Wales to the Greenham military base in England. Growing popularity and the choice of non-violence and non-mixing were to make the history of this peaceful movement, which lasted for twenty years and brought together up to 30,000 people. Greenham Common - Women Against Missiles | ARTE.tv Documentary Subscribe to our Youtube channel: / @artetvdocumentary 🗓 Available until the 20/11/2025 ARTE.tv Documentary is here to tell you more about what’s going on in the world of culture, news and current affairs with powerful, refreshing and entertaining docs subtitled in English for our international fans. Discover a whole world on #ARTE.tv #nuclearwar #artetvdocumentary #greenhamcommon


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