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DVD ~ James Nesbitt
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  • Actors: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley, Kathy Kiera Clarke
  • Directors: Paul Greengrass
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 3 Mar 2008
  • Run Time: 106 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000Z63ZHY
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,998 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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, activist 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 Pigott-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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5.0 out of 5 stars A multi-faceted chronicle of a war crime, 10 April 2009
By Pablo (Newcastle, Co. Down) - See all my reviews
Bloody Sunday is a brave film which combines a documentary-style realism with complexities which merit more than one viewing.
We have the vividly recreated atmosphere of Derry's Creggan and Bogside in 1972 - humanity struggling against poverty and deprivation, against which backdrop riots provided teenagers with both a vent for frustration and a social activity. James Nesbitt as Ivan Cooper, local MP and Civil Rights activist, is seeking to hold a march demanding Civil Rights and protesting against internment without trial (introduced some six and a half months previously). The film makes it abundantly clear that it is to be a peaceful march, attended by unarmed civilians. The focus switches between scenes of the local people of Derry to vignettes of the British Army's preparation for the march. The British are portrayed (in vivid contrast to the demonstrators) as actively anticipating and even desiring violence. Dialogues between soldiers are included to reflect typical (often racist) attitudes of British soldiers towards Irish people. As the British authorities do not allow the march to take its planned course, there is some minor rioting (a daily occurence in NI at the time). The British Army Paras then open fire indiscriminately on the crowd, using live bullets and shooting to kill. Thirteen unarmed civilians are killed and as many more injured and this is conveyed in what is a piece of incredibly realistic filming. Fear, pain, anger and confusion reign as the demonstrators try to assist the dead and dying while the Paras continue to pick them off. The film then depicts a British cover-up, soldiers not only telling lies but planting false evidence on a dying teenager.
Thus "Bloody Sunday" is a story of murder, of war crimes that have gone unpunished. There are some who might want to disagree with the interpretation of events reflected in this film, but I feel that it is a film that should be watched by everyone, prior to taking up a stance on the issue.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A stirring and powerful film , 4 Nov 2008
This is a gripping piece of cinema that it is very involving and very sad. It's hard to watch some scenes and it really is an extremely emotional film, and one that presents a side of the event that is sometimes overlooked - namely the lives of the people involved.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My role is only an Observer........, 22 May 2009
This documentary style film had it all...A thoroughly incisive view from all angles..perhaps except the Paramilitaries. They were there in the background waiting to pick up the pieces but I sensed they saw this as an opportunity to show how peace marches,etc,can be highjacked into violence.
Nesbitt does his bit(no pun) to initiate a political push for dialogue and change but too much has happened to stem it's natural course.
The soldiers are depicted as wanting revenge for the lack of rights afforded to fallen comrades and want to seize the moment to make their point, that the army are in charge.

One thing that lacked for me due to scale restrictions was the limit of young tearaways who presumably had thrown petrol bombs, although in the latter part we see bombs being planted on a dead protestor. Overall it conveyed it's message very well and I was impressed and shocked at what turned out to be an indiscriminate massacre.I'm old enough to have heard and probably watched it on news of the day, and my brother served in the troubles around that time..fortunately not on Bloody Sunday.
It is ironic that the first such Bloody Sunday was an equally barbaric slaughter of Officers in Dublin circa 1919-21 conflict. The numbers amounted to the same(I think??) but unlike the Derry parade there were no other casualties. The fact that so many were probably stone throwing yobs driving their feelings home had hallmarks of naivety as they would try to impress onlooking bad boys eager to stoke hatred into their brethren.
Being British the murder of rioters and the all ensuing cover-up paralleled the reticence of Seinn Fein who would not condemn acts of violence or offer apologies for orchestrated bombings of innocents.

Simmering feuds will be the touch paper for future rebellions or troubles
and since so many political prisoners have been released tension will be forever present. The good people who seek accord will be undermined for the purposes of the puppet-masters who thrive on disruption. Like soldiers who couldn't settle when demobbed and fought as Black and Tans in the Civil War, so shall remain the anger and contempt of those who see peace as the enemy.

Piggott-Smith(Maj-Gen Ford) does what all those in high office do....pass down responsibility to subordinates who shoulder the blame if all goes wrong. No one should have to live under martial law but the alternative was all-out war...A total no win situation?

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4.0 out of 5 stars A dramatisation of a key turning point in Northern Ireland
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