Films and TV shows that feel like Zombie by The Cranberries

A furious, grieving protest against political violence, mourning children killed in the Troubles and condemning the cycle of conflict that keeps repeating.

1. In the Name of the Father (1993): Same era and wound: the Troubles, bombings in England, and the human cost of the conflict.
2. Bloody Sunday (2002): Raw, documentary-style account of the day that fed decades of violence the song laments.
3. Belfast (2021): Shows the Troubles erupting through a child's eyes, echoing the song's grief for the young.
4. '71 (2014): A tense, brutal night in Belfast that captures the fear and senselessness of sectarian war.
5. Hunger (2008): Unflinching, anguished portrait of the 1981 hunger strikes and the cost of the conflict.
6. Omagh (2005): Dramatises the grief of families after a bombing, the song's mourning made specific.
7. Derry Girls (2018): Set in 1990s Derry with the Troubles as backdrop, the same time and place seen with humour and heart.
8. The Crying Game (1992): Irish republican violence and its personal fallout, from the same early-90s moment.