The Wind Shakes the Barley

Ken Loach
- Director
Adult Audiovisual DVD - Win

Beginning in 1920 this Irish film chronicles its characters involvement in the Irish War for Independence and subsequent Irish Civil War, choosing to frame its rival interpretations of Irish history as a social revolution more than a nationalist one. See also the much later '71 set during The Troubles.


War Movies

  • The Last of the Mohicans


  • The Battle of Algiers


  • Rescue Dawn


  • The Bridge on the River Kwai


  • Overlord


  • 1917


  • City of Life and Death


  • Dunkirk


  • The Wind Shakes the Barley


  • Breaker Morant


  • Platoon


  • Pork Chop Hill


  • Glory


  • The Big Red One


  • Patton


  • A Bridge Too Far


  • The Hurt Locker


  • Lone Survivor


  • Come and See


  • Sergeant York


  • Saving Private Ryan


  • Das Boot


  • The Longest Day


  • Black Hawk Down


  • Letters from Iwo Jima


  • The 9th Company


  • Gettysburg