Bloody Sunday (2002)

In documentary style, Paul Greengrass' BLOODY SUNDAY, which chronicles the events of January 30, 1972 in Derry, Ireland, is filmed with gritty gray realness. Surrounding a peaceful protest march staged in contest to British laws that permitted internment without trial, the film charts the progress of the march from the night before it to the night following it. As the final organizing of the march takes place that morning, MP Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt) rushes from the street where police barriers are being erected to his office where he fields a string of urgent phone calls. Meanwhile Major General Ford (Tim Pig...
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ott-Smith) arranges for a heavily armed troop of commandos in fatigues and face paint to be ready to intercept the march if it turns violent. A third persona, Kevin McCorry (Allan Gildea), is a young lad with a prison record who believes in the cause of the march but wants to avoid conflict and any real trouble. As the march proceeds, and chaos ensues, the British militia opens fire onto the unarmed crowds, shooting 27 and killing 13 in one of the most shocking instances of excessive force in Irish history, ending any hope of nonviolent resolution, and stoking the IRA.
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Charles McDougall's Sunday is one of two films (the other being Paul Greengrass' Bloody Sunday) that were made in 2002 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of January 30, 1972, a date commonly known as Bloody Sunday. Originally aired on BBC television network, the film attempts to give a fact-based portrayal of the events, which began as a civil rights protest in response to some Catholic leaders being jailed without due process and ended in a gruesome massacre, with 14 Catholics shot dead and 14 others injured at the hands of the British military. After its television debut, Sunday went on to win the top prize at...
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the 2002 Method Fest Independent Film Festival.
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Zondag 30 januari 1972, Derry, Noord-Ierland. Ivan Cooper is organisator van een geweldloze mars voor gelijke rechten tussen katholieken en protestanten. Hij is vast van plan alle geweld tussen de verschillende partijen uit te sluiten. Maar ondanks zijn overleg met de Unionistische autoriteiten en zijn pogingen om te onderhandelen met de Britse ordestrijdkrachten loopt de betoging uit de hand : dertien mensen worden door het leger doodgeschoten. Sinds die dag staat 30 januari bekend als "Bloody Sunday". Een datum die tegelijk ook het startschot betekende voor de burgeroorlog in Noord-Ierland.

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