Bloody Sunday (2002)

I just watched this movie and have to say that it was really good. It showed all the sides (the Catholic Irish, the British Military and their Protestant Irish helpers.) I have read and learned a lot about what happened on January 30, 1972 in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, but watching this movie really brought it home. It was made in 2002 before the British Government released their second report on what happened during Bloody Sunday (the report was released in June 2010 when I was in Northern Ireland and I heard about it everywhere.) The British report stated (contrary to the first British report made in 1973 that whitewashed their involvement) that the British Government/Military was completely at fault for the deaths of 13 innocent, unarmed people with many others wounded. After the second report was released the British Government officially apologized for the massacre (my words not their's) but has yet to bring the the people responsible to justice. If the British are truly sorry for the killing of innocent people and causing decades of violence then they should do more than words - they should bring charges to every last person who was at Bloody Sunday as well as those that helped cover it up (including taking the medals Queen Elizabeth 2 gave some of them.)

Bloody Sunday was the turning point in The Troubles in Northern Ireland. It turned a peaceful movement for civil rights and equality into a decades-long bloodpath (that continues - just below the surface - today.) Had the British Military not abandoned basic human compassion and morality and  not shot innocent, unarmed people I think The Troubles would have come to an end much sooner than 1998. Instead, the actions of the British Military on Bloody Sunday brought more people towards revenge and violence that otherwise wouldn't have gotten involved. Every British person should watch this movie so they can know the truth about what their country/government did (especially considering that their government in 1972 covered it up and lied to their own people.) Every country has a dark past it is not proud of and this is clearly a dark point in British history.