Black Taxis - Full Documentary

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 -

Follow us on social media :
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/BestDocumentaryTV

Видео Black Taxis - Full Documentary канала Best Documentary