Voices from the Grave [Documentary | "The Troubles" ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland]

'The Troubles' were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century. The conflict began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed to have ended with the 'Good Friday Agreement' of 1998. Although the Troubles primarily took place in Northern Ireland, at times the violence spilled over into parts of the Republic of Ireland, England, and mainland Europe.

Voices from the Grave (2010), directed by Kate O'Callaghan, is the story of the Northern Ireland Troubles through the unflinching testimony of two men who played key roles on opposite sides of that bloody conflict. Nearly twenty years ago, the two paramilitary leaders told their stories on condition that they could never be revealed while they were still alive. The stories told by the Irish Republican Army's Brendan Hughes and Ulster Volunteer Force's David Ervine tell us of the motivations of the participants, the planning of campaigns of violence, the misery of a hunger strike, the tracking and killing of informers and the duplicity that ended a conflict that had lasted too long. It is also a narrative of the fate of combatants when their wars are over.