The Patriot Game (1979)
• June 1st, 1979 • 1h 38min
Documentary
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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