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Oswald Mosley: Britain's Fascist Leader and Founder of the Blackshirts
Sir Oswald Mosley was Britain's leading fascist politician and the founder of the British Union of Fascists, whose Blackshirt movement sought to bring fascism to Britain before the Second World War.
A former Conservative and Labour Member of Parliament, he rose rapidly through British politics after the First World War, earning a reputation as a gifted speaker and a rising national figure. Yet his career would ultimately become inseparable from fascism, political extremism, and one of the most controversial movements in modern British history.
This documentary explores Mosley’s transformation…
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