Shooting the Darkness

Shooting the Darkness

53 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Jan. 30, 2019

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.

Shooting the Darkness

53 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Jan. 30, 2019

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.
Producers RTÉ, ARTE GEIE, Broadstone Films, BAI
Original title Shooting the Darkness
Directors Tom Burke
Writers

Cast

Alan Lewis

as Self - Press Photographer

Hugh Russell

as Self - Press Photographer

Paul Faith

as Self - Press Photographer

Crispin Rodwell

as Self - Press Photographer

Trevor Dickson

as Self - Press Photographer

Stanley Matchett

as Self - Press Photographer

Martin Nangle

as Self - Press Photographer

Tom Lawlor

as Self - Press Photographer

Frankie Quinn

as Self - Press Photographer

Sean O'Hagan

as Self - Press Photographer

Edward Daly

as Self - Catholic Priest (archive footage)

Martin Galvin

as Self - NORAID Member (archive footage)

Theresa May

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

as Self (archive footage)