Stephen Rea was married to Dolours Price who was an IRA bomber, convicted for a bombing in Manchester in 1973 that injured 200 people and contributed to a fatal heart attack of victim.
Rather than being yet another more conventional documentary about "The Troubles", the film is a haunting juxtaposition between a relatively balanced, non-judgemental, varied historical selection drawn from Loyalist, Republican, Army, RUC and Civilian deaths from across the conflict, using sequences assembled from news coverage of the incidents, juxtaposed with the modern cityscape landscape and wildlife of Northen Ireland.
The documentary features contemporary news coverage from the BBC, RTE, and the Fremantle-Thames Television archives. Curiously, the film doesn't seem to contain any news coverage from the local ITV-Northern Ireland franchise holder, then known as Ulster Television/UTV even though it was in existing since the 1950s, and was the sole ITV franchise holder for the time period the documentary covers. Most likely, the BBC archive probably contained enough material , that "doubled up" with the UTV news coverage, with "gaps" filled in with the RTE and Thames collections, for what the film covered.
The "moving image", as in not the still photographs, in the end titles acknowledges using archive material sourced from the UK's BBC, the Republic of Ireland's RTE, and perhaps surprisingly "Freemantle" (sic). Actually Fremantle was historically originally created from the former UK television channel ITV franchise holder, for the London region, Thames Television. Thames were a major production company then, for the local region, and a major supplier of varied programming for the entire ITV network, including many news and current affairs documentaries, some of which were covering Northern Ireland, often from a more British "mainland" perspective, as they also were the region that covered the British Parliament.
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