Film

Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Real Story

2024 · 48m · Documentary

IMDb

7.6

When Post Office subpostmasters up and down the country started to experience big shortfalls in their accounts, Post Office assumed they were stealing the money and prosecuted them. Hundred were given criminal convictions and many were sent to prison. Lives, marriages, reputations – all ruined. The shortfalls were in fact, a result of errors in the Post Office’s own IT system, known as Horizon. It was something the Post Office had always denied. For over twenty years, former subpostmaster Alan Bates has fought tirelessly for justice for all the subpostmasters who were so poorly treated by the brand they had loved. This is his story.

Toby Jones

Self - Narrator (voice)

• Clare RichardsDirector

Release date

January 4, 2024

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

48m

Genres

Documentary