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Bloody Sunday. .

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Produced by Mark Redhead; coproduced by Don Mullan and Paul Myler; directed by Paul Greengrass; screenplay by Paul Greengrass and Don Mullan, based on Don Mullan's Eyewitness Bloody Sunday; cinematography by Ivan Strasburg; edited by Ciare Douglas; production design by John Paul Kelly; art direction by Padraig O'Neill; costume design by Dinah Collin; original music by Dominic Muldoon; starring James Nesbitt, Tim PigottSmith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley, Kathy Keira Clarke, Mary Moulds, Carmel McCallion, Chris Villiers, Gerard Crossan, Declan Duddy, Joanne Lidsay. James Hewitt and Allan Gildea Color, 110 mins. Distributed by Paramount Classics.

In Derry on January 30, 1972, at the end of a civil-rights march that the government had banned, the British Army opened fire on a section of the crowd, shooting in all twenty-seven people. Thirteen men and boys died on that day and a fourteenth some months later. At the time, the army claimed that it had come under sustained gun and bomb attack from the IRA when it went into the nationalist Bogside to arrest rioters and retaliated only when definite targets had been identified. The local community maintained that no shots had been fired at the army and that all those killed and wounded were innocent. In the subsequent Widgery Tribunal into the events--established in haste by the then-Prime Minister, Edward Heath, and conducted against a background of suspicion and skepticism among the nationalist community in Northern Ireland--the army's version was largely endorsed. The events of this infamous 'Bloody Sunday,' and the judgement of the Widgery Tribunal, have soured the politics of Northern Ireland for...