Hunger (Criterion Collection)

Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham. Beautifully, painfully shot and scripted, this drama follows the 1981 hunger strike by Irish prisoners in Belfast, protesting their mistreatment at the hands of British guards and the British government's refusal to recognize them as political prisoners or prisoners of war. 2008/color/96 min/NR/widescreen.