Overview

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.

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Cast

Helen Mirren

Fionnula Flanagan

Aidan Gillen

David O'Hara

John Lynch

Tom Hollander

Tim Woodward

Ciarán Hinds

Geraldine O'Rawe

Gerard McSorley