THE landmark film `'Lost Lives', marking the 50th anniversary of the start of the Troubles, will have its television debut on Sunday in a prime time BBC One NI slot.
Drawing on the seminal work of the same name by journalists David McKittrick, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton and the late Seamus Kelters, along with historian David McVea, it is narrated by famous Irish actors including Liam Neeson, Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Dunbar, Bronagh Gallagher, Stephen Rea, James Nesbitt, Brendan Gleeson, Roma Downey and Susan Lynch.
Each one takes it in turns to recount the details of a different lost life.
First published in 1999, the book Lost Lives documents the deaths of all 3,700 people killed during the 30-year sectarian conflict.
There are 18 lives taken from the book which the directors felt were representative of the loss of the thousands killed.
The narration is combined with archive news footage, press clippings and views of the Northern Ireland landscape and cityscapes, with a haunting score performed by the Ulster Orchestra
Co-directors Dermot Lavery and Michael Hewitt, founders of the Belfast-based DoubleBand Films, describe the film as a "requiem" for the Troubles' dead and the lives shattered by their loss".
`Lost Lives' premiered at the London Film Festival on October 10 before screening at QFT Belfast where there was a special Q&A with the film-makers.
It is now coming to a wider audience, broadcast at 9pm on Sunday - when the second part of the Agatha Christie blockbuster `The Pale Horse' is broadcast in other regions.
