Nonsuch Ireland

On 30 January 1972 the British Army deployed the 1^st Parachute Regiment to conduct an arrest operation in Derry during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march. Twenty-six civil rights’ protestors were shot, fourteen died, and the day has since been known as Bloody Sunday. Before Sunday is a touching portrait of the victims’ lives before that tragic day. We are introduced to a photographer, a golfer, a student, a prankster, and ten other boys and men who we learn are very much like our own fathers, sons, brothers, and friends.

 Jennifer Faus has done something extraordinary and poignant. Reaching into the heart of this violent and controversial event, she allows us to hear, as if for the first time, the innocent voices of those who died and those who were left behind.
Paul Greengrass: Director, Bloody Sunday, Bourne Supremacy, United 93