Movies: Donal McCann

During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down. Remade as "The Bishop's Story" in 1994....

Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival. The Donner Party's nightmarish journey penetrated to the very heart of the American Dream at a crucial phase of the nation's "manifest desti...

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 father is in England seeking his fortune....

Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave)....

In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths....

Sir Robert Clarke looks back on his life and the summer when as a 16-year-old he first fell in love with Louise St. Leger....

A televised Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie, a nineteenth century aristocrat's daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father's house....

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the past....

Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results...

A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ordeal, she is released into the care of her friends. The police ...

A historian writing a biography of Isaac Newton spends a Summer with a dysfunctional family in Co. Cork, Ireland....

During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down....

A problem for Frank and Margaret turns out to be a false alarm, or even a blessing in disguise....

A Catholic priest's fantasies of pomp and supernatural power seem to come true....

Documentary about the Provisional Irish Republican Army, produced in 1972; copy found by BBC in 2019, never aired in full....