- HD 1080
- Runtime: 96m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: Ireland, United Kingdom
- Director: Steve McQueen
- Stars: Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham, Helena Bereen, Laine Megaw
- keywords: prison, police brutality, prisoner, hunger strike, biography, northern ireland, ira (irish republican army), belfast, north ireland, catholic priest, 1980s
- Production_studio: Blast! Films, Film4 Productions, Northern Ireland Screen, Wales Creative IP Fund
- Slogan: An odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest.
- providers: AMC+ Amazon Channel
- The Hunger is featured in the top rankings of 2008
- #50 in Top Drama Movies of 2008
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
