Desc: Year Zero: Black Country: Directed by Billy Dosanjh. In the 1960s thousands of economic migrants from the former colonies came to the railway town of Smethwick in the industrial heartlands of England. Nearly all the newly arrived were illiterate and unskilled with high hopes, in search of a promised land to make a small fortune. Using archives and filmed scenes, the psychology and sensations of this epic upheaval are the focus of Year Zero: Black Country.