Shooting the Darkness
2019
7.8 (3)
53 min
English
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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- RTÉ, Broadstone Films, ARTE GEIE
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
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Top Cast
Alan Lewis as Self - Press Photographer
Hugh Russell as Self - Press Photographer
Paul Faith as Self - Press Photographer
Crispin Rodwell as Self - Press Photographer
Trevor Dickson as Self - Press Photographer
Stanley Matchett as Self - Press Photographer
Martin Nangle as Self - Press Photographer
Tom Lawlor as Self - Press Photographer
Top Crew
Tom Burke · Director, Cinematographer
Gerry Horan · Composer
Heike Lettau · Producer
Caroline Laub · Producer
Sarah Ryder · Executive Producer
Photos
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