Of all the volatile periods in Northern Ireland's recent history the Hunger Strikes is one of the most impassioned and significant historically.  Filmmaker Margo Harkin revisits the dramatic story of how and why Bobby Sands and 9 others died a death so extreme it convulsed politics in Northern Ireland and Britain, and drew world wide attention to the one of the most extreme protests in prison history.  A painful and memorable film, The Hunger Strike is the definitive telling of this tragic period in Anglo-Irish history.