'' Bloody Sunday '' is a 2002 British-Irish film about the 1972 " Bloody Sunday " shootings in Derry , Northern Ireland . Although produced by Granada Television as a TV film , it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January , a few days before its screening on ITV on 20 January , and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January . The production was written and directed by Paul Greengrass . Though set in Derry , the film was actually shot in Ballymun in North Dublin . However , some location scenes were shot in Derry , in Guildhall Square and in Creggan on the actual route of the in 1972
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Bloody Sunday (1972)
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