This is England

This is England was filmed in 2006 which was based in the 1980's, this film was to show the skinhead culture in the 80s and that black people are still having a bad time in England even though black music has been adopted by white culture.

The film is based in the 1983 a year after the Falklands war ended and the main character who is a small boy called Shaun played by Thomas Turgoose who lost his dad in the war and just lives with his mum. He meets a gang of skinheads who are not racist and get acepted into the gangs has a laugh with the gang, but he also finds a big brother in woody who is played by Joe Gilgun and has a relationship with Smell who is played by Rosamund Hanson. This all changes when Combo played by Stephen Graham comes back from prison and tries to recruit more skinheads to be racist, he gets shaun to join and shaun finds a father figure in combo. In the end Milky gets beaten up by Combo while intoxicated with Weed and nearly kills Milky. The last scene shows Shaun throwing his England flag which was given by Combo (it symbolished the friendship between Combo and Shaun)into the sea.