Bloody Sunday (film) Bloody Sunday (film) Bloody Sunday is a 2002 Irish film about the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland. Although produced by Granada Television as a TV film, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on ITV on 20 January, and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January. The production was written and directed by Paul Greengrass. Though set in Derry, the film was actually shot in Ballymun in North Dublin. However, some location scenes were shot in Derry, in Guildhall Square and in Creggan on the actual route
Bloody Sunday (1926) Bloody Sunday (1926) Bloody Sunday is a name given to political clashes that occurred in Colmar, Alsace, France on August 22, 1926. On that day the French Communist Party and the Colmar section of the Popular Republican Union (a Catholic organization) had organized a joint protest meeting at the "Salle des Catherinettes". The theme of the meeting was to denounce measures by the French state against the signatories of the Alsatian autonomist "Heimatbund" manifesto. However, a large group of French nationalists had assembled at the meeting point of the rally. They included the royalist "Camelots du Roi" and "Action française".