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Derry, 1972; As the civil rights movement across the North of Ireland begins to secure unprecedented wins, the British state responds with lethal force, murdering 14 people and sparking a 60 year fight for justice and accountability by a community for whom everything had changed.
From the acclaimed directors of ‘To Kill a War Machine’ and the community who took on the British state and won, ‘The Day Innocence Died’ tells the story of the Bloody Sunday massacre and its legacy, weaving unheard testimonies and indelible archive footage into an epic cinematic documentary.
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00:04Bloody Sunday was a massacre of people who were marching for justice for their
00:09fellow citizens. It was a peaceful protest march and it was attacked by the British
00:14Power Super Regiment.
00:21We lost all our identities. I wasn't Gerry Duddy, the boxer, the footballer. I was
00:26Gerry Duddy, brother, Jackie Duddy killed Bloody Sunday. We weren't ourselves, we were
00:31brothers of people killing Bloody Sunday. And that made me angry.
00:40To see the dead on the street around you, this is when you lost your childhood.
00:47I remember being at my father's grave and saying to him that I would clear his name
00:53and clear the rest of the names of the Bloody Sunday dead.
00:59We were up against the British government, so we were.
01:05It was like a situation of David and Goliath. We were taking on the might of the British government.
01:30They were just all of the bloodshed love or bloodshed elected, so we were off against another
01:31number of threat charges.
01:32It was optimally, so we were afraid of this.
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