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- PBS
- May 22, 2023
- PBS
- May 22, 2023
Summary The five-part documentary series from James Bluemel features interviews with the people who lived through "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland.
- PBS
- May 22, 2023
- PBS
- May 22, 2023
Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
Season 1
Season Premiere: May 22, 2023
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Summary The five-part documentary series from James Bluemel features interviews with the people who lived through "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland.
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
87
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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It is history in the round: unhurried, vivid, human, told without judgment or interruption. .... Shocking, fascinating TV.
It is a superb piece of work, not merely a litany of horrors but an opportunity for those involved to look back.
The people interviewed by director James Bluemel ("Once Upon a Time in Iraq") for this BBC production are extraordinarily likable, introspective, rueful and sometimes ruefully amused.
The strength of the series lies in how it honors those who have come to talk about them. If not a full accounting of the era’s politics and atrocities, it offers something equally valuable, an anecdotally authoritative, emotional history, as its subjects grapple with who they were then from the standpoint of who they are now.
By marking how the Troubles affected individuals, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland finds profound wider truths.
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