Ireland | 2009 | 45 mins | Beta | Colour
Blanketmen charts the morale of Republican prisoners through the tumultuous period of the 1976-1981 H-Block protest. Locked up for 24 hours a day, wrapped only in a blanket, denied any form of stimulus, beaten and degraded, in hardship they found humour; in silence they found song; in isolation they found each other; and together with dignity and comradeship they fought and won. Through the personal accounts of former prisoners, the story of survival is brought to a new audience. Blanketmen is a fascinating insight into life during the protest, in particular its culmination in the deaths of 10 men on hunger strike.Part of:
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