Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday

7.3IMDb Score
Released:2002-01-25
Duration:107 min
Director:Paul Greengrass
Actors:James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan, Mary Moulds, Carmel McCallion
Production:Granada Television, Portman Entertainment Group, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Hell's Kitchen

Overview:

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

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