I saw this when I was a kid. Early-'70s. I saw it on TV, so it may have been a TV movie. It was about the conflict in Northern Ireland. I remember one scene where a boy is killed after being hit in the head with a rubber bullet, and his mother began ranting about rubber bullets while the soldiers looked very guilty.
Those events took place in 1972, which was probably about when I saw the film on TV; so I wonder about the timing. There was a film called Sunday, Bloody Sunday made in 1971, but Wiki says that was about a homosexual relationship and the film I saw was about The Troubles. ISTR some family conflicts, but I don’t remember what.
It’s definitely not Sunday Bloody Sunday, which had nothing to do with Ireland and had a working title of Every Bloody Sunday.
Emphasis mine. I’m gonna suggest that your memory is more likely to be slightly off than that there’s a plethora of films with such a scene in them.
I know I was a pre-teen. Maybe ten or so.
If it helps, the scene is in a road. Might have been a dirt road, but I’m not sure. There’s a crowd of people taunting soldiers or demonstrating against them or something. The soldiers may have been in trucks, as ISTR a higher camera shot looking down on the civilians.
ETA: Oh – It may have had ‘Children’ in the title.
Could it be A War of Children?
It had an Irish Catholic mother participating in the tar-and-feathering of her own daughter for the crime of having a love affair with a British soldier.
And it ended with her son dying from a blow to the head from another British soldier in the midst of an angry mob’s melee.
A War Of Children! That’s it! I thought the boy had been shot with a rubber bullet, but it could have been a blow. (I thought I remembered a rant about rubber bullets.)
ETA: Thanks, kaylasdad99. 