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The original was posted on /r/documentaries by /u/MetzoPaino on 2025-06-17 17:36:05+00:00.


I recently watched Ronin (1998), which ends implying that De Niro’s character saves the Good Friday agreement by killing a rogue IRA agent

Afterwards I was left wanting to understand more about The Troubles and I remembered having watched a documentary that I thought was very good, but I can’t remember its name!

It’s not Spotlight On The Troubles: A Secret History or Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, which I’ve just recently watched and are very good.

Here’s what I remember: * I watched it over 5 years ago. I think probably close to 10 years ago as it was after a visit to Belfast in 2015 * I think I watched it on YouTube, but it was a multipart upload of a broadcast documentary * It felt very long and very detailed. Almost like it was to The Troubles what The World At War doc was to WW2 * I don’t know if it was old, or the YouTube quality was low * I believe it went into some of the famous characters of The Troubles, as it introduced me to Brendan Hughes and Bernadette Devlin McAliskey