The Wind That Shakes the Barley

War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.

Plot Summary

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

7.4 /10

2006

IEGB

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