The Patriot Game

The Patriot Game (1979)

June 1st, 19791h 38min

Documentary
67%

Overview

Recounts Ireland's history from British colonization to the territory's division in 1922, then from 1968 details a decade of events through images and eyewitness accounts of killings and such massacres as the infamous "Bloody Sunday" as the IRA argues their cause.


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