jono M Bloody Sunday is about the shootings dead of 14 civil rights marchers by the British army in derry during the conflict in NI. 90% of those killed in the conflict were killed by paramilitaries. However film-makers have decided to make a film about one of the few atrocities committed by the security forces.The film is co-produced by an IRA sympathiser called Don Mullan. He has described the IRA campaign as a reaction to the violence of the state.The propaganda line put forward by this film is that the nationalist community tried peaceful means for achieving civil rights but were just met by state violence and that the British crushed NICRA (as the CRM was called).This contradicts with the facts. In order to get the viewer to believe this the film tells a number of lies 1. Ivan cooper says at the beginning of the film that there were no reforms introduced prior to 1972. This is a flat out lie. Loads of reforms had been introduced beginning in 1968. One man, one vote had been introduced, the B specials had been abolished for example.2. Ivan cooper says at the end of the film that the civil rights movement had been destroyed. This is a flat out lie also. NICRA disbanded voluntarily in the early 1980's. The viewer is therefore misled into believing that there were no longer any peaceful alternatives to violence.The film is extremely anti-British. One piece of anti-British hate-mongering is the message at the end that those who planned the operation were honoured by the queen. It is true that two of the senior officers in charge of the operation were later honoured by the queen. However no one who carried out any of the shootings or ordered any killings were honoured by the queen.Do not believe the lies in this film. The brits were working on setting up a power-sharing arrangement at the time. What was planned was an arrest operation not a massacre as is implied by this film. Everyone of NICRA's demands were introduced by 1975. There were other options available to nationalists other than violence, contrary to the lies in this film!

paul2001sw-1 The partition of Ireland, though contested, is defensible; the subsequent neglect by the British government of the rights of northern Catholics is not. Nor is the shooting, on what has been termed "Bloody Sunday", of unarmed protesters objecting to the absence of these rights. Moreover, these events disastrously but understandably strengthened the roots that the I.R.A. was able to put down in the Catholic community. An initial enquiry vindicated the soldiers; but many felt this a whitewash, and Paul Greengrass's film shows an alternative version of events, based on extensive research. What we see, messily and unmelodramatically, is not a clean fight between good and evil - the demonstration was certainly hostile and not entirely peaceable - but a grotesque tragedy resulting from a self-fulfilling belief on the part of the army that they were already at war. The verdict might be incompetence rather than murder; but when the incompetence is itself premeditated, the difference is a fine one. To make a film effectively endorsing one of Irisah Republicanism's more potent claims was a brave move by I.T.V.; but a more recent enquiry has largely confirmed its accuracy.

michelle having been born in England and never truly understood or been taught the full story of Ireland and England's long lasting disputes -having been raised in Australia since i was 8 and born in the 80s,after this event occurred-i watched this film to gain a solid understanding of why i came from a town thats so heavily attacked by the I.R.A -Birmingham... what i felt when i finished this film shocked me ........ i am a huge horror fan ,so the idea of me crying as i watch a film is very rare -i think three films other than this one have succeeded in my 28yrs of life- but when i ended my viewing of "bloody Sunday", i was still wiping my eyes . it is a very powerful ,well recreated retelling of the Bloody Sunday massacre and James Nesbitt was absolutely astounding and his final speech brought me to tears as i wondered why this had to occur at all .....i say this film is a must see for everyone -just like films like Hotel Rwanda , American History X ,or This is England

spandexman-1 for my as level case study we watched bloody Sunday. we watched this film after watching "in the name of the farther" which everyone in my class enjoyed.however i don't think there was a single person in my class who enjoyed bloody Sunday. im not dismissing the fact that it was an important event, and im not slating it for any reason to do with that. i simply thought much of the acting was poor ( i.e. British troops) and that some of the editing was a bit tiresome e.g. fades.all in all the film was very successful , however in my opinion i felt ti was overrated.