The Wind That Shakes the Barley

2006 7.4 (835 votes) 2h 7m

Genres

Drama War

Production Companies

Sixteen Films
Matador Pictures
Regent Capital
Element Pictures
BiM Distribuzione
EMC
Tornasol Media
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.

Overview

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.