Julian Jarrold - Red Riding: 1974 (2009)

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It's Yorkshire in 1974, and fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions.

When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions in the last decade.

But after a mutilated body is found on a construction site owned by a local property magnate, Eddie and Barry are drawn into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality

Keith Emmerson (hecklerspray.com) wrote :

.....The landscapes are as beautifully crafted as any Andrei Tarkovsky title. The director has created a bleak, stark and hopeless vision of life in the West Yorkshire of the 70s. This credit goes to Julian Jarrold who has a background in crime dramas such as Silent Witness and Cracker, but also more recently period dramas Becoming Jane and Brideshead Revisited. He is probably best known for his work on the gritty hospital drama, Children’s Ward.....