Recounts Ireland's history from British colonization to the territory's division in 1922, then from 1968 details a decade of events through images and eyewitness accounts of killings and such massacres as the infamous "Bloody Sunday" as the IRA argues their cause.
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Winnie Marshall as Self - Narrator (voice)
Arthur MacCaig Director
France 01 May 1979
United Kingdom 01 June 1979
United States 19 June 1980
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29 October 1979
Durga and Vikram Singh have been married for years. Vikram has taken to crime in a big way, and as a result has antagonized a rival gangster, Jaggi.
03 July 1979
A 40 year old former football star and idol of his generation feels that there's a gap between him and the rest of his peers.
28 May 1979
It is an Epic story based on the book Virata Parva of Mahabharatha. After 12 years of Vanavasam, the Pandavas spend their 13th year of exile the Agnaadhavasam in an incognito state with disguised identities at the court of Virata.
01 January 1979
Gloria Fontanesi is a girl who works as a factory worker but carries within her a great passion: dancing! Success comes one night, when due to a delay by Renato Zero, the stage is finally hers.
25 May 1979
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet.
26 June 1979
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax.
19 May 1979
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist.
23 March 1979
A master thief returns home. There he is threatened with the gallows if he fails to solve the tasks set by the count.
01 January 1979
Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs.
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