The Wind That Shakes the Barley poster
Film 2006 127 min

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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

TMDB Rating ★ 7.3
Votes 926
Director Ken Loach
The Story

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.

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