Poverty and despair had increased during the course of the strike, which led to many miners across Britain returning to the pits.
On 3 March 1985, miners returned to work on the instruction of the National Union of Mineworkers.
Breaking Point highlighted the solidarity of many mining communities in south Wales during what was to become the final few weeks of the strike.
Kjell-Åke said that he did not sense the strike would end soon while he was filming the documentary.
“I didn’t feel a breaking point,” he said.
Shortly after he returned to Sweden to edit the film he learned that it had ended.
“I had a short time to make the film and we just concentrated on one family and some other people and the union meetings,” he added.
“Maybe if I had done more interviews with other people maybe I’d have seen that, but this was my experience of it.”
