Black Taxis - Full Documentary
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- Brendan, Gerald and Tom are former volunteers of the Irish Republican Army. For them, and for all Irish republicans, the time of the armed struggle is now over.
- But how to live in peace after thirty years of war and sacrificed life?
- How then rebuild his life that under the company, it remains a criminal?
- And how to accept that peace does not look like victory?
Today they are drivers of "Black Taxi"
Republicans in the ghettos of Belfast.
Black Taxis are one of the strongest symbols of resistance. They were created at the beginning of the war, when the British government decided to suspend the bus service which served these neighborhoods.
In Belfast, the buses were driven by Protestants, who refused to risk their lives in these republican areas. The people were so organized, they bought old taxis to make their transit.
These taxis are still today their privileged transportation, 7/7, from morning to night, plying the same route.
Riding a Black Taxi is one of the few possible jobs for former prisoners. Moreover,
this Community transport system was also created in order to give them work.
These trips represent confinement and lack of horizon of a generation that has spent the first half of his life in war, in combat or in prison.
This film shows the loneliness, the loneliness of a day of war and the passing history and
Un film d'Elisabeth Jonniaux
Produit par Marie Hélène Ranc -
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Best quote I ever heard on Ireland... "Catholics and Protestants fighting for hundreds of years and not a Christian among them"
My father was a Catholic and couldn't go to college in northern Ireland because of that. He came to the USA in the 50's and started a new life in the usa.
Just don't understand why the French keep translating 90's into 80's in the subtitles?
I have worked alongside Irish people for many years in England. It has never occurred to me to ask them about their religious beliefs...It is none of my business.
Catholic or Protestant, the people of Ireland and N.Ireland are a great and proud people. ❤
Taxi driving laughing about shooting a fellow human being several times. The other taxi driver seems surprised that he got a life sentence.. are all the black taxi men IRA?
Belfast is such a strange city. But those red-brick streets have an allure and mystique where ghosts still walk
as a 57 year old that lived in northern ireland and lived through it all neither side hated each other we all grew up together as friends and still are it was the evil people on both sides that caused the hatred the people of northern ireland have wised up to them and told them to go away
Imagine being a nuisance looking for explosives! This driver is a one man propaganda machine.
Free lift for the old woman that's the Belfast man for ya...but a Belfast man is a stubborn man💪🇮🇪
‘You have to live in the time that you’re in’ Powerful words
Excellent documentary. It is good to hear the people who live there and who are on the ground give their views without questions or prompting.
Loved my time in Belfast can’t wait to go back.. me and the missus took a black taxi ride around. She didn’t hear about them before and didn’t really know what to expect she just knew I really wanted to do one.. well out of the whole trip to Belfast and we done everything you can do the black taxi ride was by far the best thing we did even the missus said that. If your travelling to Belfast I can’t recommend them enough. My missus didn’t think Belfast was the way it was until the cab ride. What an experience. Getting to walk into estates on shankill and see what’s it’s like without getting into trouble for been from the republic was cool. The taxi driver told us that once there’s no trouble it’s okay to walk through shankill these days. Belfast has a dark but cool history I hope peace continues up there
In the UK, when you hail a taxi, you get in and its your cab....until your destination.
great doc. thanks for putting it up.
The night shots are just perfect
I have Protestant and catholics in my family,and there is never any talk of the troubles and everyone sticks together like a family should,me personally don’t Class my self as either,I was just a normal guy when I was young getting a coin anyway I could,without resorting to shit like attacking old people or any other crap that any normal guy knows,the unwritten rules we live by,people think there’s plenty money in Aberdeen a city of quarter a million,but it’s the same as anywhere,
Brilliant documentry
Was this documentary made by Sinn Fein? Very balanced views here.
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