The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Direction
Greengrass's shaky-cam before Bourne—raw, nauseating, essential.
Acting
Nesbitt's Cooper: hope draining from his face in real-time.
Editing
Chaos cut with surgical precision. You never get your bearings.
Director
Paul Greengrass
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Greengrass shot in Derry with survivors as extras; some re-lived trauma they were too young to remember.
Released the same year as the Bloody Sunday Inquiry reopened—cinema as political intervention, not just commemoration.
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