The Lie of the Land
2007, English. Directed by Molly Dineen.
A very incisive and hard-hitting documentary about the way in which life for farmers and other people who depend on the countryside for their livelihood is changing for the worse as a result of the decline in home-grown food and the banning of fox-hunting. Farmers are having to kill calves which it is uneconomical to keep, paying token amounts to the local fox-hunt as unofficial knackers to dispose of the carcases for feeding to the fox-hounds. Why should society seem to care so much about the fate of hunted foxes and yet apparently so little about what happens to unwanted cattle which are cross-breed or the wrong sex? There is great resentment (as typified by the Countryside Alliance marches in London) to changes that are being imposed by a government that people in the country feel is neglecting their wishes in preference to those of the city-dwellers.
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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- 3 May 2007
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The Lie of the Land isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 3 May 2007. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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If you liked The Lie of the Land, try In the Realms of the Unreal, Heart of a Dog, To Kill a Tiger.
Who directed The Lie of the Land?
The Lie of the Land (2007) was directed by Molly Dineen and stars Molly Dineen.