Movie

Shoot to Kill (1990)

• June 3, 1990
• 4h 0m

Overview

Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.

Director

Peter Kosminsky

Writers

Michael Eaton

Starring

Jack Shepherd, David Calder, Patrick Drury