DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
Shooting the Darkness
“A great photograph transforms the event. It's not just a record of it. It's something else”
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.
Directed by Tom Burke, Sarah Ryder
78
User score
3 votes
Status
Released
Released
January 30, 2019
Runtime
53m
Language
English
Top cast
Alan Lewis
Self - Press Photographer
Hugh Russell
Self - Press Photographer
Paul Faith
Self - Press Photographer
Crispin Rodwell
Self - Press Photographer
Trevor Dickson
Self - Press Photographer
Stanley Matchett
Self - Press Photographer
Martin Nangle
Self - Press Photographer
Tom Lawlor
Self - Press Photographer
Frankie Quinn
Self - Press Photographer
Sean O'Hagan
Self - Press Photographer
Edward Daly
Self - Catholic Priest (archive footage)
Martin Galvin
Self - NORAID Member (archive footage)
Theresa May
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage)
