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Hunger

A drama that follows the last six weeks of the life of Irish Republican hunger striker, Bobby Sands.

McQueen brings a visceral intensity to his retelling of the hunger strike instigated by Bobby Sands and several other detained Irish Republican Army members in the early 1980s, who were determined to live in a Northern Ireland free from British rule. In prison, Sands and other IRA members--including Davey Gillen and Gerry Campbell --at first protest by refusing to wear the standard prison garb, but soon, they take their protest dangerously further.

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