Discuss Films About Northern Ireland in Films, Music and All Things Artsy on The Army Rumour Service; While reading the thread on the new film to be made, "Crossmaglen", it prompted my memory about a TV series (only 2 or 3 episodes) made on NI called "Children Of The North". It was ...
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Films About Northern Ireland While reading the thread on the new film to be made, "Crossmaglen", it prompted my memory about a TV series (only 2 or 3 episodes) made on NI called "Children Of The North". It was shown in Australia on the ABC network only once, there was never a repeat.
My memory of the series is that it was a very brutal portrayal of the "troubles" and wondered if any ARRSErs' can remember it and whether it was ever put onto DVD for sale?A sadly maladjusted non-entity.
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Fifty Dead Men Walking was a cracker - look into that.
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I always wanted to see "Harry's Game" but it has never been made in a DVD compatible with US machines. I read the book, great book!!
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I remember it. Part of the story involved an army undercover bloke invoved in assassinations, who later topped himself. I think I still have some of it on VHS (taped off the telly) somewhere...
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Children of the north was not very representative, the book was pretty fictional as well. Harry's Game captured the 70s well, a grim portrayal and showed the flaws in the Army Intel system like no other. Fifty dead men walking, hard to follow if you have read the book. The book was excellent and I KNOW that it is authentic. There have been 2 movies made about bloody sunday, both are biassed shite. There was a movie made called Contact, also shite. James Nesbitt tried to make a film about the Shankill Butchers called resurrection man. Great story but made in ROI so lots of PC influence spoiled the plot. The best I have seen in recent years is called "5 minutes of heaven". Forget the silly storyline, this portrays how things actually were in Lurgan in the 70s.
As for "Crossmaglen", well if somebody wants to make a movie about a town that revells in the fact that it is in NI yet so close to the ROI border that the laws of either country have never really been enforced with the people from the learned "respectable" professions down having sold themselves to a crowd of local farmers hell bent upon making money for themselves and themselves alone on the backs of muliple murders of innocent bystanders or those tasked by the elected government to provide some semblence of law and order. This could be a useful lesson to those in Bradford, Burnley or wherever there is a community that wants to set up its own governance under sharia law, 40 years of XMG is the way to do it if their morals are that low. I would love to hear a response from someone who actually lives there now.Stonker likes this.You see! This is why birds and CID don't mix.
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Keep your eyes open for a film called "It's nothing personal" decent film about a unionist hit squad in 70' s Belfast starring James Frain.
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Absolutely brutal but probably the best movie ever made about the nature of the troubles.
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A most curious film. A sequence of mindless assassinations. I've not seen this in years and I'm not anxious to review it again. The scene of the youths playing kick-a-bout on the football park when............ Too many deja vu moments in that film. Thank God I was only to read about them in after action RUC reports and subsequently in the press. Terrible times. Originally Posted by shimna01 The artist formerly known as Bob_Lawlaw
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- 31-01-2011, 11:12 #10
The whole film was based on RUC police reports and SOCO scenes of crime reports.
No dialogue, no explaination, just the reality of CQA.
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