During that time, before Martin McGuiness & Ian Paisley got their heads together, all of Northern Ireland and many parts of England were living with the IRA bombing campaign and of course we were all living with it vicariously through our TV sets. The saga of the Guildford Four was part of all that and we paid attention to it or not according to whatever else was in the news. It deserved our attention though because it was as significant as the Dreyfus case or the Assange case now. As a corrupted police force struggled to find the culprits of a particularly nasty bombing, a couple of likely lads from Belfast happened to stray into their path. What followed was a sequence of police brutality, confessions under duress and the rounding up of the family, including children, back in Belfast, hurriedly put before a kangaroo court and SLAM! long jail sentences for innocent people.
This movie does a pretty fair job of covering the whole story, especially if it's now only a dim memory to most of us or totally unknown to a couple of generations.
