Bobby Sands: 66 Days (2016)
Opening at August 5, 2016 on VOD
History, Documentary, Biography
Bobby Sands was interested in girls, soccer and music at seventeen years old. Ten years later, he led a hunger strike against conditions inside Northern Ireland’s infamous H Blocks that grabbed the worlds attention. Sands became an icon for a world that, to this day, knows little about him. Featuring fresh insight and remarkable archive 66 DAYS brings us the story of this enigmatic prisoner and the events that turned him into a 20th Century icon.
Director: Brendan Byrne
Stars: Bobby Sands,Gerry Adams, Michael Alison, Humphrey Atkins, Owen Carron, Ronnie Close, Tim Pat Coogan, Sile De Valera
►Cast
| Gerry Adams | ► | President of Sinn Féin |
| Michael Alison | ► | Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office |
| Humphrey Atkins | ► | Secretary of State, Northern Ireland (archive footage) |
| Aram Bakshian | ► | Former Speechwriter for President Reagan |
| Mario Biaggi | ► | (archive footage) |
| Michael Biggs | ► | Professor of Sociology, Oxford University |
| Tony Blair | ► | (archive footage) |
| Neil Blaney | ► | Dublin MP (archive footage) |
| Owen Carron | ► | Election Agent for Bobby Sands |
| Ronnie Close | ► | University of Cairo |
| Tim Pat Coogan | ► | Historian |
| Sile De Valera | ► | Dublin MP (archive footage) |
| Danny Devenny | ► | Former Sinn Féin Publicity Artist |
| Bernadette Devlin | ► | Sands’ Election Campaign (archive footage) |
| Seán Donlon | ► | Former Irish Ambassador to USA |
| Richard English | ► | Historian |
| Jack Foster | ► | Queen’s University, Belfast |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi | ► | (archive footage) |
| Jim Gibney | ► | Former Sinn Féin Family Liaison Officer |
| Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara | ► | (archive footage) |
| Charles Haughey | ► | Taoiseach, Republic of Ireland (archive footage) |
| Thomas Hennessey | ► | Historian and Author |
| Ted Kennedy | ► | (archive footage) |
| Ted Koppel | ► | (archive footage) |
| Tomboy Louden | ► | Friend and Former IRA Volunteer |
| Terence MacSwiney | ► | Lord Mayor of Cork (archive footage) |
| Frank Maguire | ► | MP for Fermanagh / South Tyrone, Northern Ireland (archive footage) |
| Joanne Mathers | ► | Victim of IRA (archive footage) |
| Martin McCann | ► | Bobby Sands (voice) |
| Raymond McCord | ► | Teammate of Sands |
| Bik McFarlane | ► | Officer Commanding 1981 Hunger Strike |
| Laurence McKeown | ► | Former Hunger Striker |
| Seán McManus | ► | Founder, Irish National Caucas (as Sean McManus) |
| Ho Chí Minh | ► | (archive footage) |
| Charles Moore | ► | Biographer of Margaret Thatcher |
| Danny Morrison | ► | Former Sinn Féin Director of Publicity |
| Matthew Murray | ► | Former Aide to Ted Kennedy |
| Airey Neave | ► | Member of British Parliament (archive footage) |
| Brendan O’Cathaoir | ► | Former Irish Times Journalist |
| John O’Connell | ► | Dublin MP (archive footage) |
| Denis O’Hearn | ► | Biographer of Sands |
| Richard O’Rawe | ► | Friend and Former IRA Volunteer |
| Fintan O’Toole | ► | Literary Editor, The Irish Times |
| Ian Paisley | ► | (archive footage) |
| Duc Quang | ► | (archive footage) |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ► | (archive footage) |
| Ronald Reagan | ► | (archive footage) |
| Hernan Reyes | ► | Medical Expert on Hunger Strike (as Dr. Hernan Reyes) |
| Gerard Rooney | ► | Friend and Former IRA Volunteer |
| Bobby Sands | ► | (archive footage) |
| Colm Scullion | ► | Friend and Former Cellmate |
| Denis Sweeney | ► | Teammate of Sands |
| Norman Tebbit | ► | Former Minister in Thatcher Cabinet |
| Margaret Thatcher | ► | (archive footage) |
| Séanna Walsh | ► | Friend and Former IRA Volunteer (as Seanna Walsh) |
| Dessie Waterworth | ► | Former Prison Officer |
| William Butler Yeats | ► | (archive footage) |
| Oliver Hughes | ► | Brother of Francis Hughes (archive footage) |