Films like Hunger

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   Maze

   Film · 2017 · also drama and history

   Inspired 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 Wa...

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   Bloody Sunday

   Film · 2002 · also drama and history

   The 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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   In the Name of the Father

   Film · 1993 · also drama

   A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to p...

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   Escape from Sobibor

   Film · 1987 · also drama

   The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

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   The General

   Film · 1998 · also drama

   The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from th...

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   '71

   Film · 2014 · also drama

   A 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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   Against the Wall

   Film · 1994 · also drama and history

   In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.

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   Five Minutes of Heaven

   Film · 2009 · also drama

   The story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting be...

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   Baltimore

   Film · 2024 · also drama and history

   Based on actual events that took place on 26 April 1974, former debutante turned IRA member Rose Dugdale and three comrades carried out an armed raid on Russborough House...

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    The Last Castle

    Film · 2001 · also drama

    A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.

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