docus - WAR: the TROUBLES

The award-winning 1973 documentary looks at the situation in Northern Ireland as it affects the Catholic community of Ardoyne. Includes interviews with leading figures in the community including social workers, released internees, a parish priest and a Provisional IRA Battalion Commander.

Feature documentary on the 3-days of riots in Derry, Northern Ireland that led to the deployment of British Troops into Derry in August 1969.

Interviews with former Northern Irish paramilitary leaders from opposing sides, detailing roles, motivations, experiences in violence, attacks, hunger strikes, informants, post-conflict life.

The murals of Northern Ireland are an expression of the region's violent Troubles. 'The Art of Conflict' examines these murals through their painters and the people who live there, exploring this unique street art's impact, purpose, and future.

Between the 9th and 11th of August 1971 eleven people were killed by the British Army's Parachute regiment. All eleven were unarmed civilians. One of the dead was a parish priest another was a mother of eight. The Royal Military Police were assigned as sole investigators. Not one member of the British army was held to account. It is believed that had justice been administered and those held to account charged, the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry would not have happened.. These events have remained hidden from public knowledge and focus for over 40 years.

An investigation into the victims killed and secretly buried by the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

A portrait of Derry-Londonderry. Personal and intimate recollections of a city and it's people through half a century of history. A time that saw a rise from poverty and neglect, to headlines across the world.

Irish Republican Bobby Sands' 1981 hunger strike protesting his status as a criminal prisoner sparked a pivotal moment in Northern Ireland's conflict, drawing global attention and triggering efforts towards resolution.

Born and Reared is a moving documentary that explores contemporary Northern Ireland, through the lives of 4 men living in the aftermath of violent conflict. It's a story about re-imagined identity of place and the fragility of masculinity.

The extraordinary untold story of how an NYPD bomb disposal expert played a key role in helping defuse the decades old "Troubles" in Northern Ireland.

Almost 20 years after the Good Friday agreement that ended a 30-year civil war between the Protestant Loyalists and Catholic Republicans in Northern Ireland, this film looks back at the conflict's origins, and examines the strength of current peace. Partly shot during centenary celebrations of the Easter uprising that marked the beginning of the end of British dominance.

One night, Majella O'Donnell took her teenage son Philly to be shot in both legs. Majella, Philly, and his shooters all live in an extraordinary community in Derry, Northern Ireland. 'The Troubles' officially ended in 1998, but this community is still at war. They do not accept the government or police. All this happens within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. How do you bring your son to be shot? What happens afterwards? How does family life continue? How does a community respond? When do wars really end? For five years, Sinéad O'Shea has filmed this shocking portrait of a post-conflict society.

An in-depth look at the unsolved 1994 Loughinisland massacre, where six Irishmen were murdered, presumably by a Unionist paramilitary group, while watching the World Cup at the local pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland.

Depicts the 1971 killings of 11 civilians by British Army in Belfast's Catholic Ballymurphy estate. It explores the relatives' pursuit of justice and the link between this incident and the Bloody Sunday shootings five months later.

The photojournalist Fulvio Grimaldi, as the only Italian eyewitness, documented the peaceful march for civil rights through the Bogside in Derry on the 30th of January 1972 that ended with the tragedy known as Bloody Sunday, travels to Northern Ireland 45 years later to give evidence on the third inquiry about Bloody Sunday. In Derry, he discovers that the external walls of the houses located in Rossville Street are painted with the most important events of the 'Troubles' and the struggle for civil rights in the seventies. Grimaldi, fascinated by the communicative power of the murals, one of them inspired by his iconic photograph of Bloody Sunday, gets in touch with The Bogside Artists and the people who were involved in the events depicted on the murals. The meeting between Fulvio Grimaldi and The Bogside Artists leads to a journey through the past and the present full of history, arts and deep emotions.

HEAR MY VOICE is a cinematic tribute to those who suffered loss as a result of the Northern Irish conflict (1968-1998). Timed to mark the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement that brought violence to an end, the film is inspired by artist Colin Davidson's elegiac exhibition of paintings, Silent Testimony. Using Davidson's paintings as the film's visual spine, HEAR MY VOICE paints its own impactful portrait of life after loss in a cinematic exploration of survival and the strength of the human spirit. Each of the portrait sitters are linked by profound loss, with their own unique story to tell. The sheer scale and detail of the portraits allows for close examination of the lines, brush strokes and layers of paint that make up the subjects' faces, their eyes and expressions saying so much more than any filmed interview could convey; horror and dignity etched in equal measure. The interviews with the sitters are used in audio only, avoiding comparison with the real person and allowing a detailed study of their portraits. The exhibition was hung and filmed in a disused warehouse, echoing the ghosts of the sitter's lost loved ones. The camera cuts between elegant tracks of each of the paintings, revealing the curved lines between the brush strokes, craters between the paint which creates space for the audience to contemplate the tragic nuances behind the unfolding stories. The film gives a neglected voice to those citizens who are still paying the price of Northern Ireland's peace today, their experiences as relevant to those surviving loss in other cauldrons of conflict such as Syria, Iraq and Rohinga, or those families recovering from random acts of violence in Paris, Berlin or Toronto. Complemented by a classical score by composer Brian Byrne, the beautiful cinematography of Richard Kendrick and the skilful editing of Greg Darby, HEAR MY VOICE becomes a poetic testament to the resilience of Northern Ireland's forgotten victims and a cri de couer for an Ireland free of armed conflict.

Follows Dolours Price, one of very few women who rose to the top of the IRA and who was involved in bombings during the Troubles in the 1970s.

An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig's decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over 30 years of unique and never-seen-before footage, 'The Image You Missed' is an experimental essay film that weaves together a history of the Northern Irish 'Troubles' with the story of a son's search for his father. In the process, the film creates a candid encounter between two filmmakers born into different political moments, revealing their contrasting experiences of Irish nationalism, the role of images in social struggle, and the competing claims of personal and political responsibility.

The stories of the ordinary people in Northern Ireland who had to cope with the loss of their loved ones, killed during the Troubles.

Documentary about Irishman Sean Garland, known as the man in with the hat, a former Workers' Party president and Official IRA Chief of Staff, and about what he has seen not only in Ireland, but in places as far away as the then Soviet Union and Eastern bloc and North Korea.

Patrick Kielty, an Irish Comedian, travels back to Northern Ireland to see how successful the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement has been 20 years later. Kielty voted for the agreement despite knowing that it meant release from prison for those convicted of his father's murder.

This feature-length documentary investigates the role the British government played in the murder of over 120 civilians in Counties Armagh and Tyrone from July 1972 to 1978.

Film maker Mark Cousins, who left Belfast at 18, returns to his home town to reflect on how the place and its history have been used, and occasionally abused, by cinema.

In 1974, while on the way home from a gig, the apolitical rock group, The Miami Showband, fell into the crosshairs of a Protestant unionist paramilitary group that planted explosives on their bus when it was stopped at a fake checkpoint.

Northern Ireland's descent into late 1960s violence, the British Government's response, the rise of the Provisional IRA, alleged security force-loyalist paramilitary collusion, and the arduous journey to peace after almost 3,000 deaths.