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Michael Collins is a biographical historical drama film about Michael Collins , a leading figure in the earlyth-century Irish struggle for independence against Britain. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. An international co-production between the Republic of Ireland , the United States, and the United Kingdom, Michael Collins was one of the most expensive films ever produced in Ireland.

It was released in Ireland on 8 November. At the close of the Easter Rising in , the besieged Irish republicans surrender to the British Army at the republicans' headquarters in Dublin. Ned Broy , officially a member of the loyalist G Division , sympathises with the independence cause and tips Collins off that the Castle intends to arrest the entire Cabinet that evening.

De Valera, sensing that the arrest will spark a worldwide outcry, dissuades his cabinet from going into hiding and persuades them to allow their arrests to take place. Collins and Boland evade arrest, though there is no response to the wider action.

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As the last senior leader still free, Collins begins a counter-intelligence campaign with help from Broy. De Valera soon breaks out of Lincoln Prison , but announces on his return to Ireland that he will go to the United States to seek President Woodrow Wilson 's official recognition of the Irish Republic. The war continues to intensify; the British assign SIS Officer Soames to counter the Irish Republican Army, though he and several of his agents are killed in an attack orchestrated by Collins.