11 Films & TV Shows Set In Ireland During The 1960s
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Penance
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960s The 1910sFather Eion O'Donnell is unambiguous about the need to use violence to force Britain out of Ireland. He influences a young impressionable boy, Antaine to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later Antaine arrives in Derry as an experienced gunman. This appearance throws Eoin back to the cause of his breakdown in 1916. Eoin's influence on young Antaine echoes in Antaine's dark influence on an Altar boy, Feidhlim.
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The Devil's Doorway
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sSome doors should never be opened โ In the autumn of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
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The Siege of Jadotville
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland ๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the New York The 1960sThe Irish army's forgotten battle โ Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
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The Boys from County Clare
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sIn Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.
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The Magdalene Sisters
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sIn a place that defied belief their only hope was each other. โ Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
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Agnes Browne
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sWhen Agnes Browne's husband died, she discovered something amazing... Herself. โ Set in Dublin in 1967, the story of feisty woman, who along with her seven children, learns to cope with adversity after the unexpected death of her husband.
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The Boy from Mercury
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sSet in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.
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A Man of No Importance
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sAn extraordinary tale of an ordinary hero โ Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
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Rocky Road to Dublin
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sRocky Road to Dublin is a 1968 documentary film by Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and French cinematographer Raoul Coutard, examining the contemporary state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, โwhat do you do with your revolution once youโve got it?โ It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic and clerical traditionalism at the time of its making.
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See You at the Pillar
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sA short film about Dublin City using a mixture of contemporary footage, folk music and quotations from past residents, Shaw, Wilde and Behan etc. Narrated in a "conversation" by Anthony Quayle and Norman Rodway.
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The Big Gamble
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sAcross 30,000 miles to the fabled Ivory Coast! โ Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.