Rent Borstal Boy (2000)

Based on Brendan Behan's acclaimed autobiography and directed by Peter Sheridan, Borstal Boy is a hard-hitting, rites-of-passage story where the harsh realities of prison life are revealed. Brenden is a teenage Republican, going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during World War II. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in England. Locked in closed quarters Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those who perceives as the enemy.