Bloody Sunday (TV drama)

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Bloody Sunday

Directed by	Paul Greengrass
Written by	Paul Greengrass
Starring	James Nesbitt Allan Gildea Gerard Crossan
Release date(s)	January 16, 2002
Running time	105 min
Language	English
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Bloody Sunday is a television drama, produced by Granada Television and screened on ITV on January 20 2002. The drama concentrates on the events of the "Bloody Sunday" massacre through the eyes of Ivan Cooper, the Protestant Stormont MP (for the SDLP) who was a central organiser of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement march in Derry on 30 January 1972 that ended with British paratroopers firing on the demonstrators, killing thirteen and wounding another thirteen, one fatally.

Cooper is played by James Nesbitt, himself a Protestant from Northern Ireland, and a number of the military characters were played by ex-members of the British army. The production was written and directed by Paul Greengrass.

The soundtrack contains only one piece of music, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2. The film was critically acclaimed but was strongly criticised by the makers of the alternative Sunday (shown by Channel 4 the following week) for its concentration on the leadership of the march and not the perspective of those who joined it.