MOVIE

Shooting the Darkness

Name: Shooting the Darkness
Director: Tom Burke
Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Released: 2019-01-30
Cast: Alan Lewis, Hugh Russell, Paul Faith, Crispin Rodwell, Trevor Dickson

A great photograph transforms the event. It's not just a record of it. It's something else

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around them. Instead of photographing weddings and celebrities, as they expected, they produced the images that crudely show the suffering of ordinary people between 1968 and 1998, the worst years of the conflict.

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around … + more

Release Date

2019-01-30

Year

2019

Duration

53m

Status

Released

Score

7.80

Genres

Documentary History TV Movie

Production

#1970s#war-photographer#northern-ireland#irish-mob#ira-(irish-republican-army)#photojournalism#sinn-féin#1980s#1960s#1990s#political-repression#religious-persecution#the-troubles-(north-ireland,-1966-98)#domestic-terrorism#state-terrorism#press-photographer+4 more