Download premium images you cant get anywhere else. The nationalist conflict is unresolved to this day, making bobby sands 66 days a subversive film. Telling the factual story of sands life for the first time, this unique film sets out how he became the architect. Bobby sands 66 days, a new film on the hungerstrike of. A gripping tale of terrible times structured around sandss decline, 66 days powers us through a sociopolitical maelstrom. Bobby sands a catholic mp for ulster died in prison after 66 days of hunger strike. This clip from the feature length documentary bobby sands. It didnt have any problems that cooperation and togetherness couldnt solve. Drawing on an irish republican tradition of martyrdom, sands emotive, non. Using extracts from bobby sandss diary, testimony and footage from the archives, the film hears from journalists, historians, sociologists and medical experts as well as those who knew sands. Drawing on an irish republican tradition of martyrdom, sands emotive, nonviolent protest to be classified as a political prisoner became a defining moment in 20th century irish. Please visit the pov hot docs hub for more coverage on this years festival. Robert gerard sands 9 march 1954 5 may 1981, commonly known as bobby sands, was a member of the provisional irish. Bobby sands 66 days 2016 1080p webrip x264pawel2006.
A film about the ira hunger striker bobby sands has become one of the most lucrative northern irish films. Hot docs has received filmmaker permission to upload this trailer to the hotdocsfest youtube channel. Of all the many virtues of the irish people, togetherness has never been. The film centres around the writings of sands himself while he was on the hunger strike at the maze prison. Telling both sides of bobby sands story irish examiner. With gerry adams, michael alison, humphrey atkins, aram bakshian. Sands married geraldine noade while in prison on robbery charges on 3 march 1973. This is a film full of unanswered questions, or to be precise, unasked questions. Maybe cynical but the struggle of the ira david against the british goliath sells. He spent 48 hours in a coma before being pronounced dead by medical staff at long kesh. By the early 1980s, after two decades of violence and unrest, the situation in northern ireland took a sudden and profound turn inside the infamous maze prison.
That concept is forcefully reiterated in brendan j. A documentary detailing the hunger strike by ira member bobby sands in 1981 which led to his death. Content media in 1981, bobby sands is a 27yearold member of the ira, doing a 14year sentence for weapons possession in northern irelands maze prison, when he leads fellow prisoners on a hunger strike demanding that they be treated as. Reality of hunger striker bobby sands lost in the myth. Filmmaker brendan j byrne explores the story of bobby sandss 66day hunger strike in the spring of 1981. Seeking the right to be treated as political prisoners rather than common criminals, irish republicans led by bobby. I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. People want the story of the underdog, the down trodden sticking it to the man.
Thirtyfive years after his death, so many myths have agglomerated around bobby sands that the real person seems unknowable, and steve mcqueens very. Bobby sands 66 days 2016 1080p webrip x264pawel2006links hosted on uploaded, rapidgator, nitroflare, mega, openload, free, direct stream is also available via putlocker or torrents. With these words, ira volunteer bobby sands began his hunger strike on march 1st 1981. There are moments of terrible sadness in 66 days, brendan j byrnes profoundly moving account of bobby sands hunger strike in the socalled h blocks of long kesh prison.
A film about ira hunger striker bobby sands has become one of the most lucrative northern irish films ever. Seeking the right to be treated as political prisoners rather than common criminals, irish republicans led by bobby sands began a prison hunger strike that would draw international attention to the conflict. Robert gerard sands 9 march 1954 5 may 1981, commonly known as bobby sands, was a member of the provisional irish republican army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned. Robert gerard sands was a member of the provisional irish republican army who died on. Sands undoubted act of personal bravery brought ireland to a standstill as the outside world looked on to see an intense battle unfold between an unseen prisoner and the might of the british. May god have mercy on my soul, said bobby sands when he began his hunger strike on march 1, 1981, as an imprisoned member of the irish. In the spring of 1981 irish republican bobby sands 66day. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. Bobby sands film 66 days a box office hit the irish news.
Press eye belfast northern ireland 31st july 2016 mary nellis, mitchel mclaughlin and mary kay hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of bobby. In the spring of 1981, ireland was brought to a standstill as it witnessed an intense struggle between an invisible man, locked in a prison cell, and the might of the british government. As subtle and eventempered as a documentary about a selfstarving political martyr can possibly be, brendan j. Bobby sands film breaks box office records ireland the. Bobby sands 66 days takes a sympathetic look at this man, who became a symbol at 27. In the spring of 1981 irish republican bobby sands 66day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause.
See more ideas about bobby sands, irish and history. And the clich s begin genuine quick properly the movie really commences with statham kicking some a lot essential ass in a boss action sequence employing the backdrop of brazil. In one he describes the 1981 hunger strike as drama at the absolute rawest edge it. Still from the bobby sands 66 days film he attributes part of its success to the fact that 2016 is the centenary of another pivotal moment in irish history the easter rising. For that reason bobby sands has gained following now, bit like che guevara, that makes him interesting to. This clip from the upcoming feature length documentary bobby sands.
Bobby sands starved for 66 days in an irish prison in an attempt to gain rights for his fellow political prisoners. Telling the factual story of sands life for the first time, this unique film sets out how he became the architect of his own destiny and describes. In the spring of 1981 irish republican bobby sands 66 day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause. Using extracts from bobby sandss diary, testimony and footage from. Sands died on may 5 1981, at the age of 27, after refusing food for the 66 days of the title.
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