Shooting the Darkness

2019

53 min

7.8

Ends at

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.

Budget

$0

Genre

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Director

Tom Burke

Country

France

Cast & Crew

Alan Lewis

Hugh Russell

Paul Faith

Crispin Rodwell

Trevor Dickson

Stanley Matchett

Martin Nangle

Tom Lawlor

Frankie Quinn

Sean O'Hagan

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Shooting the Darkness

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.

  • Alan Lewis

  • Hugh Russell

  • Paul Faith

  • Crispin Rodwell

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