Shooting the Darkness (2019)

01/30/2019 (FR) • 53m

Documentary, History, TV Movie

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

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Alan Lewis

Self - Press Photographer

Hugh Russell

Self - Press Photographer

Paul Faith

Self - Press Photographer

Crispin Rodwell

Self - Press Photographer

Trevor Dickson

Self - Press Photographer

Stanley Matchett

Self - Press Photographer

Martin Nangle

Self - Press Photographer

Tom Lawlor

Self - Press Photographer

Frankie Quinn

Self - Press Photographer


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

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

irish unionist

irish republican

social prejudice

irish history

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