Rte Movies

The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man, his...

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around...

A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.

Director Bill Keating built a programme around following Rory through a day of his short 1972 Irish tour. At the center of the programme is a recordin...

Hugh Bonneville reveals how a perfect storm of political intrigue, power struggles and clashing religious passions combined, in a single week, to caus...

Rupert, a ten year old boy, falls hopelessly in love for the first time. When it all goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to experience heartache agai...

A failed pianist comes into possession of a pair of enchanted gloves. Upon wearing them, he finds himself playing the piano like a maestro and all his...

Katie, the 14-year-old daughter of a travelling family, is left in charge of an ailing mother and her nine brothers and sisters in Dublin whilst her f...

Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daug...

A post-mortem photographer's certainties are shaken by his latest subject, a recently deceased young woman.

An Blascaod Mór, Great Blasket Island, is an islet off the southwest coast of the Irish mainland. For years, a declining population and treacherous wa...

Ardal O’Hanlon explores a 1930s quest to find the first Irish men and women using archaeology, answering his deepest questions about what it means to...

Starring Eamon Morrissey. Directed by Declan Lowney. One man show based on the writings of Flann O’Brien/Myles na Gopaleen/Brian O’Nolan. The Brother...

Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to overcom...

Riverdance--The Show is a cultural phenomenon that defies criticism for the enthusiastic and leaves everyone else scratching their heads. The wonderfu...

A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.

In the world's fastest growing sport, an Irishman from Crumlin stands on the threshold of becoming its next global superstar. This special documentary...

The first transatlantic communications cable, traversing the ocean floor from Valentia Island, County Kerry, to Newfoundland, Canada, 165 years ago wa...

In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the...

Eight year old Paulie is happiest when dressing-up in his mother’s high heels and having tea parties in the garden. His father however would prefer hi...