Shooting the Darkness

2019

English

7.4

♡ 1

1970s

Documentary

ira (irish republican army)

Tom Burke Director

Queen Elizabeth II as Self

Theresa May as Self

Gerry Adams as Self

Paul Faith as Self - Photographer for Pacemaker

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.