Some Mother's Son is a film by the Irish filmmaker Terry George and was screened in the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. The film is based on the true story of the famous hunger strike that took place in 1981 in Maze Prison. British police broke into the house of Bobby Sands on a Christmas Eve on charging him for involvement in an IRA (Irish Republic Army) bombing. After the British government decided to remove the special category status from the prisoners, Sands along with a few others started a protest against the treatment of the IRA soldiers ...
