DVD
Hunger
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
DVD ed. ; Widescreen version.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2010]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008.
Special features: Video interviews with McQueen and actor Michael Fassbender; short documentary on the making of Hunger, including interviews with McQueen, Fassbender, actors Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham and Brian Milligan, writer Enda Walsh, and producer Robin Gutch ; "The Provos' last card?:" a 1981 episodes of the BBC program Panorama, about the Maze prison hunger strikes and the political and civilian reactions across Northern Ireland; trailer; booklet in container featuring an essay by film critic Chris Darke.
Subjects
- Irish Hunger Strike, Northern Ireland, 1981 > Drama.
- Hunger strikes > Northern Ireland > Drama.
- Prisoners > Death > Drama.
- Political prisoners > Northern Ireland > Drama.
- Political prisoners > Abuse of > Northern Ireland > Drama.
- Protest movements > Northern Ireland > Drama.
- Biographical films.
- Historical films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Great Britain > History > Elizabeth II, 1952-2022 > Drama
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 1979-1997 > Drama.
- Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1968-1998 > Drama.
- Maze Prison (Lisburn, Northern Ireland) > Drama.
- Irish Republican Army > Drama.
- Sands, Bobby, d. 1981 > Drama.