• Director: Steve McQueen
  • Release Year: 2008
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
  • Language: English, Irish Gaelic

Hunger

Description

When their demand to be classified as political prisoners is refused, Irish Republicans imprisoned in the Maze, a prison infamous for brutal treatment of its inmates, find their only weapon is noncompliance with orders, wearing uniforms, and finally, refusing to eat, a decision which leads to a months-long hunger strike and to the government gradually conceding to their demands one by one, even though it might be too late.

Themes

Ireland, British Empire (1497 – 1997), The Troubles (late 1960s – 1998), Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands (1954 – 1981), 1981 Irish hunger strike, Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), Republicanism, Prisons, Police brutality, Political prisoners, Guerrilla warfare, Domestic terrorism, Religion, Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, Social justice, Social justice movements, Civil wars