# Another film ID **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-film-id/469577 "2008-10-26T00:30:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-film-id/469577/1 "2008-10-26T00:30:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-film-id/469577/2 "2008-10-26T00:51:36Z")
Almost certainly [Sunday, Bloody Sunday](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067805/). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-film-id/469577/3 "2008-10-26T00:58:28Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Almost certainly [Sunday, Bloody Sunday](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067805/). 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. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-film-id/469577/4 "2008-10-26T01:34:36Z")
It’s definitely not **Sunday Bloody Sunday** , which had nothing to do with Ireland and had a working title of **Every Bloody Sunday**. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-film-id/469577/5 "2008-10-26T01:35:01Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Those events took place in 1972, which was[COLOR=“Black”] 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.[/COLOR] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-film-id/469577/6 "2008-10-26T01:45:28Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-film-id/469577/7 "2008-10-26T01:46:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-film-id/469577/8 "2008-10-26T01:54:39Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Could it be _A War of Children_? _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**. 🙂