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Shooting the Darkness

Shooting the Darkness

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

2019•53m•7.8/10
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

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7.8/10(3)

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.

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Production

RTÉ, Broadstone Films, ARTE GEIE

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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

Sean O'Hagan

Self - Press Photographer

Edward Daly

Self - Catholic Priest (archive footage)

Martin Galvin

Self - NORAID Member (archive footage)

Theresa May

Theresa May

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

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