27 Films & TV Shows Set In Northern Ireland During The 20th Century
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Belfast
Northern Ireland The 1960sOur memories make us. — Follows a boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital.
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Derry Girls: Series 2
Northern Ireland The 1990sAmidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five high school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
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Zoo
Northern Ireland The 1940sThe true story of a larger than life friendship — Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
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Derry Girls: Series 1
Northern Ireland The 1990sAmidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five high school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
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Maze
Northern Ireland The 1980sInspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
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'71
Northern Ireland The 1970sA young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
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Shadow Dancer
Northern Ireland England The 1970s The 1990sSet in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
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Good Vibrations
🇮🇪 Ireland Northern Ireland The 1970sAre teenage dreams so hard to beat? — The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts.
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Five Minutes of Heaven
Northern Ireland The 1970s The 2000sTo face the future, they must face the past. — The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
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Hunger
Northern Ireland The 1980sAn odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest. — The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
New York Northern Ireland The 2000s The 1950sBelieve it or not... He's the Good Guy. — Hellboy must stop an elven prince from locating an ancient force that can destroy humanity: the all-powerful Golden Army.
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Fifty Dead Men Walking
Northern Ireland The 1980s The 1990sWhen you cross the line there's no going back. — It's 1989, and in a Belfast torn apart by conflict and terrorism, petty criminal Marty McGartland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA. Guided by Special Forces officer 'Fergus', McGartland gains unparalleled insight into the organisation's dealings, providing his British handler with priceless, life-saving information. Based on a true story.
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Closing the Ring
Michigan Northern Ireland The 1990s The 1940sDiscover the love of a lifetime. — During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
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Mickybo and Me
Northern Ireland The 1970sWe all need heroes — The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
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Bloody Sunday
Northern Ireland The 1970sThe dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
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An Everlasting Piece
Northern Ireland The 1980sPiece on Earth. — Colin (Barry McEvoy) is a Catholic and George (Brian O'Byrne) is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper (Billy Connolly), to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls
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The Craic
Northern Ireland The 1980sWhen Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials.
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Titanic Town
Northern Ireland The 1970sAn Extraordinary Time Called For An Extraordinary Woman — Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.
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Resurrection Man
Northern Ireland The 1970sGet right to the heart of the fear — Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.
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The Devil's Own
🇮🇪 Ireland New York Northern Ireland The 1990s The 1970sThey come from different worlds. They fight for different causes. Now, two men from opposite sides of the law are about to go to war. — Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
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This Is the Sea
Northern Ireland The 1990sThe film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
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Some Mother's Son
Northern Ireland The 1980sBetween love and loyalty... Between life and death... Lies a choice no mother should have to make. — Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
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Nothing Personal
Northern Ireland The 1970sA raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend Liam, a Catholic.
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In the Name of the Father
Northern Ireland The 1970sFalsely accused. Wrongly imprisoned. He fought for justice to clear his father’s name. — A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
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Dear Sarah
Northern Ireland The 1970sGiuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 1976. Giuseppe diligently writes his wife Sarah as she works to free her family members from prison.
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