Hunger - Blu-ray - Criterion | 2008 | 96 min | Not rated | Feb 16, 2010 - Director: Steve McQueen Writers: Steve McQueen, Enda Walsh Starring: Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham, Brian Milligan, Helen Madden, Des McAleer

Description

In Northern Ireland’s Maze prison in 1981, twenty-seven-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government’s refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners.