Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. As prime minister, she implemented economic policies known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. As prime minister, she implemented economic policies known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist before becoming a barrister. She was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her secretary of state for education and science in his 1970–1974 government. In 1975, she defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become leader of the opposition, the first woman to lead a major political party in the UK.
On becoming prime minister after winning the 1979 general election, Thatcher introduced a series of economic policies intended to reverse high inflation and Britain's struggles in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and an oncoming recession. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised greater individual liberty, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Her popularity in her first years in office waned amid recession and rising unemployment. Victory in the 1982 Falklands War and the recovering economy brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her landslide re-election in 1983. She survived an assassination attempt by the Provisional IRA in the 1984 Brighton hotel bombing and achieved a political victory against the National Union of Mineworkers in the 1984–85 miners' strike. In 1986, Thatcher oversaw the deregulation of UK financial markets, leading to an economic boom, in what came to be known as the Big Bang.
Thatcher was re-elected for a third term with another landslide in 1987, but her subsequent support for the Community Charge (also known as the "poll tax") was widely unpopular, and her increasingly Eurosceptic views on the European Community were not shared by others in her cabinet. She resigned as prime minister and party leader in 1990, after a challenge was launched to her leadership, and was succeeded by John Major, her chancellor of the Exchequer. After retiring from the Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher (of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire) which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords. In 2013, she died of a stroke at the Ritz Hotel, London, at the age of 87.
A polarising figure in British politics, Thatcher is nonetheless viewed favourably in historical rankings and public opinion of British prime ministers. Her tenure constituted a realignment towards neoliberal policies in Britain; the complex legacy attributed to this shift continues to be debated into the 21st century.
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Filmography (Movies)
Kenny Dalglish
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Release Date:29/10/2025
Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire
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Release Date:11/05/2025
Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface
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Release Date:22/08/2024
A Very British Sex Scandal: The Love Child & the Secretary
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Release Date:01/05/2024
In the Grip of Gazprom
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Release Date:07/02/2023
Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major
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Release Date:07/02/2023
Liam Gallagher: Knebworth 22
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Release Date:17/11/2022
Nazi Hunters: The Real Walk-In
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Release Date:31/10/2022
Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
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Release Date:26/10/2022
Margaret Thatcher: Serving the Crown
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Release Date:06/09/2022
Thatcher's Not Dead
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Release Date:01/09/2022
Prelúdio
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Release Date:07/08/2022
McEnroe
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Release Date:15/07/2022
Ice Under His Feet
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Release Date:19/05/2022
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
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Release Date:20/04/2022
Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins
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Release Date:03/09/2021
Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain
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Release Date:31/05/2021
Influence
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Release Date:27/01/2020
1979: Big Bang of the Present
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Release Date:10/12/2019
Laboratory Greece
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Release Date:08/12/2019
England 79
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Release Date:01/11/2019
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
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Release Date:14/08/2019
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
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Release Date:14/07/2019
Meeting Gorbachev
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Release Date:03/05/2019
Brexit: The Uncivil War
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Release Date:19/01/2019
I, Dolours
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Release Date:31/08/2018
Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation
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Release Date:04/07/2017
The Swap
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Release Date:19/10/2016
Shadow World
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Release Date:14/10/2016
How to Win the US Presidency
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Release Date:01/08/2016
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
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Release Date:30/06/2016
Hillsborough
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Release Date:15/04/2016
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
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Release Date:13/06/2015
The Emperor's New Clothes
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Release Date:24/04/2015
Laissez-faire
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Release Date:30/01/2015
Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary
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Release Date:13/04/2013
Maggie and Me
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Release Date:08/04/2013
Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister
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Release Date:08/04/2013
Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain
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Release Date:01/01/2013
Palme
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Release Date:14/09/2012
Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady
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Release Date:10/04/2012
Reagan
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Release Date:07/02/2011
The Lady is Not for Turning: An Unauthorized Story on Margaret Thatcher
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Release Date:01/01/2011
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
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Release Date:09/11/2010
How to Win the TV Debate
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Release Date:12/04/2010
The Shock Doctrine
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Release Date:01/09/2009
Portillo on Thatcher
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Release Date:25/02/2008
The New Ten Commandments
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Release Date:02/01/2008
Margaret Thatcher, l'enfance d'un chef
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Release Date:21/12/2007
How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
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Release Date:24/06/2007
Best Ever Spitting Image
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Release Date:25/07/2006
The Dark Side of Porn: The Real Animal Farm
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Release Date:19/04/2006
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
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Release Date:22/06/2004
In Search of Tony Blair
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Release Date:11/06/2004
The Downing Street Patient
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Release Date:29/02/2004
Cabinet Confidential
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Release Date:17/11/2001
The Pinochet Case
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Release Date:10/10/2001
Blackadder: Back & Forth
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Release Date:29/03/1999
Reagan
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Release Date:23/02/1998
Degeneration Punk
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Release Date:06/06/1997
How to Be Prime Minister
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Release Date:22/09/1996
Odd Man Out: A Film Portrait of Enoch Powell
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Release Date:11/11/1995
Satans mördare
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Release Date:02/09/1995
Empire of the Censors
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Release Date:28/05/1995
Westminster's Secret Service
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Release Date:21/05/1995
The Falklands War: The Untold Story
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Release Date:01/04/1987
Rockin' Ronnie
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Release Date:21/09/1986
The Red and the Blue
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Release Date:01/10/1983
Let Poland Be Poland
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Release Date:31/01/1982
Rude Boy
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Release Date:25/07/1980
Television Appearances
Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game
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Lockerbie
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Endgame in Ireland
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History 101
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Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
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紫荆花开
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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
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The Century of the Self
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The Secret Rulers of the World
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The Wilderness Years
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Wasted Windfall
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Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
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Informe especial
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Wogan
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40 Minutes
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