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From the acclaimed directors of ‘To Kill a War Machine’ and the community who took on the British state in the North of Ireland and won, ‘The Day Innocence Died’ tells the story of Bloody Sunday and the bereaved families’ 60 year fight for justice. Exclusive testimonies from the front line of the struggle are interwoven with incredible footage, shot by the film makers and activists of Derry across seven decades, to create a cinematic documentary as sweepingly epic as it is deeply personal.
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00:04Bloody Sunday was a massacre of people who were marching for justice for their
00:09fellow citizens. It was a peaceful protest march and it was attacked by the British
00:14Power Super Regiment.
00:21We lost all our identities. I wasn't Gerry Duddy, the boxer, the footballer. I was
00:26Gerry Duddy, brother, Jackie Duddy killed Bloody Sunday. We weren't ourselves, we were
00:31brothers of people killing Bloody Sunday. And that made me angry.
00:40To see the dead on the street around you, this is when you lost your childhood.
00:47I remember being at my father's grave and saying to him that I would clear his name
00:53and clear the rest of the names of the Bloody Sunday dead.
00:59We were up against the British government, so we were.
01:05It was like a situation of David and Goliath. We were taking on the might of the British government.
01:30They were just all of the bloodshed love or bloodshed elected, so we were off against another
01:31number of threat charges.
01:32It was optimally, so we were afraid of this.
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