Movies and TvShows featuring "irish-protestant" theme.

Belfast is a powerful coming-of-age drama set in the 1960s, following a young boy growing up in the midst of the Troubles in Belfast. The film explores themes of intolerance, bigotry, and religious persecution as the protagonist navigates through the shabby streets of Belfast. Against the backdrop of exploding cars, rubber bullets, and tear gas, the boy witnesses the social decay and narrow-mindedness prevalent in the divided city. As violence escalates and riots break out, he must find a way to protect his family and maintain his own innocence.

When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returning to his native Liverpool, Martin pulls together a backing band of misfits and loners, and recruits his ex-girlfriend Joan (Lisa Stansfield) as a singer. Things are complicated somewhat by the fact that Joan is now married to the policeman who arrested Martin, and when the band's first gig - at a heavy metal pub - goes badly, it seems as though the road to musical success may be a rocky one.

Can you be loyal to two nations? It's the question posed to the Anglo-Irish class of the 1930s. Landed Protestants with English accents, growing up in a newly independent, Catholic, and staunchly anti-English Ireland. This doc takes a personal look at this historical identity crisis, rich in contradictions. Tracking one family's fortunes the film explores how, as Irish nationalism took hold, this individualistic family fought to stay in Ireland.