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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Wind That Shakes the Barley

    • September 27, 2015
    • TG4

    Documentary series in which Denis Conway investigates the impact of Irish films on the areas where they were filmed, beginning with Ken Loach's 2006 drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley. He visits the Cork communities of Cúil Aodha and Bandon and talks to locals who worked behind the scenes and appeared as extras.

  • S01E02 Barry Lyndon

    • October 4, 2015
    • TG4

    Denis Conway considers 1975 film Barry Lyndon, revealing its director Stanley Kubrick was far from a recluse, and more of a family man who loved his job and kept a low profile. With exclusive behind-the-scenes photographs of the production, the documentary shines light on a time when the elite of Hollywood spent months making movies in Ireland.

  • S01E03 Moby Dick

    • October 11, 2015
    • TG4

    Denis Conway takes a trip to the small seaside town of Youghal in east Cork to explore the locations used in John Huston's 1954 adaptation of Moby Dick, revealing how local people were involved in filming and how the area has been inundated with visitors.

  • S01E04 Song for a Raggy Boy

    • October 18, 2015
    • TG4

    Dennis Conway visits Ballyvourney in Cork to meet locals involved in the making of Song for a Raggy Boy, with contributions from Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen and director Aisling Walsh.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Far and Away

    • February 9, 2017
    • TG4

    Seamus Moran examines the impact of Irish films on the areas where they were made, beginning with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's Far and Away. He visits a much-changed Temple Bar from when the film was made in 1991, and heads to Dingle to meet many of the locals who were involved in building the set on the edge of the Atlantic.

  • S02E02 Saving Private Ryan

    • February 16, 2017
    • TG4

    Seamus Moran finds out about the making of Saving Private Ryan, for which director Steven Spielberg used the beach at Curracloe, Co Wexford to recreate the D-Day landings.

  • S02E03 Dancing at Lughnasa

    • February 23, 2017
    • TG4

    Memories of the screen adaptation of Brian Friel's work Dancing at Lughnasa, which was filmed in Co Wicklow and premiered in Glenties in Donegal.

  • S02E04 The Field

    • March 2, 2017
    • TG4

    Seamus Moran traces the steps of Richard Harris and John Hurt as he travels to An Líonán, where the film version of John B Keane's The Field was shot in 1989.

  • S02E05 Braveheart

    • March 9, 2017
    • TG4

    Seamus Moran visits the locations of Mel Gibson's 1995 Oscar-winner Braveheart, which was made in Ireland. He talks to actor Sean McGinley, finds out how the people of Trim have kept the dream alive after 20 years and meets the man who was inspired to start his own business after the movie crews departed.

  • S02E06 Michael Collins

    • March 16, 2017
    • TG4

    Séamus Moran is in Dublin to retrace the steps of director Neil Jordan while making his Oscar-nominated 1996 biopic of Michael Collins.