Home video review: 'Pride'

Taken from a little-known real-life chapter of the protracted miners' strike in Margaret Thatcher-era Britain, and adding some rousing high spirits and infectious brio, "Pride" (R, Sony) might easily be accused of over-idealizing its subject matter, if its most heartwarming elements weren't true. In 1984, a group of gay activists — sympathetic to what they saw as the abusive, repressive tactics of Thatcher's administration toward miners protesting pit closures — resolved to raise money for the striking laborers and their families. After initially encountering a wall of homophobia and mistrust, the group finally found a village in Wales that accepted.