Acting
A series of documentaries about how people were living in the mid-1980s.
This documentary examines the events from the perspectives of historians, writers and family members of those involved in the 1970 Arms Trial, and draws together all strands of analysis in a dramatic narrative of the extraordinary events.
Exodus charts the decline of the Protestant population from Derry’s Cityside - which saw up to one in five of the City’s population leave their homes over a thirty year period. Directed and produced by Vinny Cunningham and John Peto, Exodus is the final film in the three part trilogy that commenced with Battle of the Bogside and No Go: Free Derry.
Comedian, Tim McGarry, tells the story of Fair Employment in Northern Ireland and reveals that he used to be a lawyer for the newly formed FEC.
Feature documentary on the 3-days of riots in Derry, Northern Ireland that led to the deployment of British Troops into Derry in August 1969.
On the 14th August 1969 the British Army were deployed onto Northern Ireland’s streets for the first time, to relieve an exhausted RUC in the wake of the Battle of the Bogside. As they entered the city the troops were confronted with a ring of barricades surrounding the Bogside area and manned by the rioters, presenting them with an instant dilemma – to attempt to remove the barricades and provoke a confrontation, or to leave the barricades intact and allow the Bogside to remain beyond official law & order?
