Definitely worth staying in to watch tonight.

After garnering major critical acclaim since it first premiered at the HotDocs film festival back in 2016, Brendan J. Byrne's latest documentary 66 Days, which looks at the famous 1981 hunger strike by Bobby Sands and his fellow Irish republican prisoners, has at last arrived on Netflix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7lstA2FaFc Clip via - Hot Docs Fest Having long been hyped as a must-see in particular following its airing on BBC a few months earlier, the story of the strike, which culminated in Sands' death, deservedly earned praise for its extensive use of his diary to create the narrative. While the story has been told through a number of different means, 66 Days has stood out for providing a unique insight into the man himself and the beliefs that he was willing to die for. Since premiering, 66 Days has been described as a "sober, evenhanded recapitulation of Sands' imprisonment" by the New York Times and an "informed, balanced and deeply humane" piece of work by Total Film. With a rating of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes alongside an IFTA nomination for best Feature Documentary, the film has also left a lasting impression on social media users now that it is showing on Netflix. https://twitter.com/Lostyyyxo/status/979730283221147649 https://twitter.com/charlotte2153/status/979516690944884736 https://twitter.com/jayoreilly1183/status/979497188479844353 https://twitter.com/ellieerix12/status/979449080312160257 https://twitter.com/JosephBrooksPA/status/979295698901401600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4QdPZwkNEw Clip via - Scannain