The Left Behind is a 2019 British television film drama, written by Alan Harris and directed by Joseph Bullman for BBC Studios.
It stars Sion Daniel Young, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Kimberley Nixon.
The drama was about the rise of far-right hate crime in working-class communities in post-industrial towns, in which poverty fuels anti-immigrant sentiment.
[1] The production was first inspired by a 2018 statistic that referrals to the UK government's de-radicalisation programme, Prevent, had a 36% rise in the previous 12 months.
But things have changed – especially in terms of the online influence” and that “we tend to either demonise this problem or ignore it.” Researching the project, the production used literature from Hope not Hate and spoke to Prevent consultants and academics, including Hilary Pilkington.