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An excellent and accurate film... McGovern takes great pains to research and document his writing and it pays off. He is not afraid to tell the truth, even though it might draw unfavourable reviews and comments from some who like stories to be clean and sweet and glossy.

Once again, McGovern brings in Christopher Eccleston, though not in as high a profile a role as he played in Hillsborough. I found this movie as accurate, well acted and well presented as Hillsborough and I applaud McGovern for his poignant unapologetic writing. Well done and my hat is off to the writer, the actors, the production crew. A great film!

This film deals with the atrocity in Derry 30 years ago which is commonly known as Bloody Sunday.

The film is well researched, acted and directed. It is as close to the truth as we will get until the outcome of the Saville enquiry. The film puts the atrocity into context of the time. It also shows the savagery of the soldiers on the day of the atrocity. The disgraceful white-wash that was the Widgery Tribunal is also dealt with.

Overall, this is an excellent drama which is moving and shocking. When the Saville report comes out, watch this film again to see how close to the truth it is.

I completely agree with bobthemoo, a terribly one-sided doco cum dramatisation. I have no doubt whatsoever that bloodshed occurred culminating in murder on that day. But to opinion the British soldiers in such a way was nothing short of total biasness by the author. I thought he researched this event thoroughly? And what did happen to the IRA soldiers in the so called accurately filmed movie??? Mmmm.

McGovern has used to astonishing effect both the infamous photos from the day and the eye witness accounts from both soldiers and marchers that led to those photos being taken. The "not spoken of; yet well known" stories of (at the time)oppressed Irish Catholics of the North. Harrowing... but to but it simply it does not tell the true story of the north at the time. It does not delve into the cause and effect, the fear and despair for everyone that was placed or lived at that time in that part of the world. ... but regardless of what you read above "reviews" ... this has been proved a factual... and it is a hard watch but well worth it. Enjoy

I will leave the reviews to the reviewers but as some may have read above reviews both about the film and defending the soldiers and claim it too be biased against them.. what has now become fact is that those soldiers are being treated as murderers and that every word they said was a lie...

Seemed to be a distinct absence of cash slopping round in this production, but that's how it is with a tv film. I spent some time with soldiers in Northern Ireland in th 1970s and was not all that convinced by the squaddies in this film They were older, bigger and far less disciplined than the younger, thinner and anxious to obey orders Greenjackets I met. Nevertheless, this is a very worthwhile film which helps explain how the army managed to go from being welcomed by the Catholic community when they arrived, to being hated as an army of occupation.