Bloody Sunday vs Special Unit - The First Murder

Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.3/10 for Bloody Sunday). Bloody Sunday is the shorter watch at 1h 47m compared with 2h 5m. Bloody Sunday is the older of the two (2002 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Bloody Sunday posterBloody Sunday2002 VS Special Unit - The First Murder posterSpecial Unit - The First Murder2025
Bloody SundaySpecial Unit - The First Murder
Audience score★ 7.3/10★ 8.8/10
Year20022025
Length1h 47m2h 5m
GenresDrama, HistoryCrime, Drama, History
Country––
DirectorPaul GreengrassChristoffer Boe
Main castJames Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Christopher Villiers, Allan GildeaNicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt

Synopsis

Bloody Sunday

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

Special Unit - The First Murder

Denmark in 1927. The ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in solving particularly difficult crimes. When a body is found in a burnt-out summer house in Esbjerg, Otto and his team begin to unravel an unusual murder mystery, revealing power struggles and corruption among the city’s elite. The closer the unit gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes…

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