Million Bricks, A

Synopsis: The story of Springfield Park, a housing estate built in the early Sixties in West Belfast, made up of both Catholic and Protestant families who lived side by side in harmony. When the Troubles erupted in the early Seventies, the neighbourhood was caught in a three-way crossfire between nationalist and loyalist forces and the occupying British Army, forcing scores of families to move out. In 1999, when the film was made, on the site of what was once Belfast’s last religiously mixed community, Protestants and Catholics are separated by the peace line, a wall of a million bricks. Blending interviews with former Springfield Park residents and archival footage, the video documents the political trauma that beset Northern Ireland for three decades.
Series: Hometown Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 1999
Subjects: Politics & government
Keywords: communities; conflict; Northern Ireland; Belfast

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British Universities Film & Video Council