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  • 1984
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    A Coming to Terms for Billy

    A Coming to Terms for Billy

    1 1984 HD

    Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family -...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kenneth Branagh

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  • 2018
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    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    6.00 2018 HD

    Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne -...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Gabriel Byrne

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  • 2021
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    Heist: The Northern Bank Robbery

    Heist: The Northern Bank Robbery

    1 2021 HD

    In 2004 armed men coerced two bank employees into stealing £26.5 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast. Now, almost two decades later, two...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Tony Blair

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  • 1983
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    A Matter of Choice for Billy

    A Matter of Choice for Billy

    4.00 1983 HD

    Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kenneth Branagh

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  • 2021
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    Ryan McMullan: Debut

    Ryan McMullan: Debut

    1 2021 HD

    Documentary charting singer-songwriter Ryan McMullan's journey to music stardom. Includes a look at some of the key moments of Ryan's career to date,...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Ryan McMullan

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  • 2013
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    The Disappeared

    The Disappeared

    7.00 2013 HD

    An investigation into the victims killed and secretly buried by the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Darragh MacIntyre

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  • 1982
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    Too Late to Talk to Billy

    Too Late to Talk to Billy

    1 1982 HD

    Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kenneth Branagh

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  • 2007
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    Middletown

    Middletown

    4.20 2007 HD

    Having spent most of his life in religious instruction, Gabriel returns to his hometown as its new preacher. The town is full of drinkers and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Matthew Macfadyen

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  • 2010
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    On Expenses

    On Expenses

    1 2010 HD

    Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.

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    Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin

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  • 1987
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    The Rockingham Shoot

    The Rockingham Shoot

    1 1987 HD

    Rigid nationalist Reilly's frustration at the last remains of British rule draws him to the Rockingham Shoot, where a violent incident occurs.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bosco Hogan

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  • 2019
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    Border Country: When Ireland Was Divided

    Border Country: When Ireland Was Divided

    1 2019 HD

    The border between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has meandered across rural Irish farmlands since its creation in 1922. Throughout...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Ardal O'Hanlon

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  • 1995
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    The Hanging Gale

    The Hanging Gale

    1 1995 HD

    In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Joe McGann

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  • 2024
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    The Rory Gallagher Story

    The Rory Gallagher Story

    1 2024 HD

    Rory Gallagher was the original Irish guitar hero, whose artistry with a battered ’61 Stratocaster became the stuff of legend. Bob Dylan and...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Rory Gallagher

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  • 2024
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    The Cable That Changed the World

    The Cable That Changed the World

    6.00 2024 HD

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

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Jessie Buckley

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  • 2014
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    Prostitution: What's the Harm?

    Prostitution: What's the Harm?

    1.00 2014 HD

    Billie JD Porter goes in search of the human face of the prostitution business, talking to the young men who pay for sex and to the young women who...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Billie JD Porter

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  • 2025
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    Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland

    Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland

    1 2025 HD

    Born in Roman Britain 1,500 years ago, a young man named Patrick embarked on an extraordinary mission that would change the course of history....

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Ciarán Hinds

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  • 2019
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    Ups and Downs

    Ups and Downs

    1 2019 HD

    A young man with Down's Syndrome tricks his sister into a road trip to go to a concert, while being pursued by their mum. With no phones, no money...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Susan Lynch

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  • 1983
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    Gates of Gold

    Gates of Gold

    1 1983 HD

    Play by Maurice Leitch set in Country Antrim. Two evangelists are touring the area, stirring up religious fervour in the quiet Presbyterian...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peter Bayliss

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  • 2018
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    Searching for Shergar

    Searching for Shergar

    1 2018 HD

    Documentary in which Alison Millar sets out to unearth the secrets behind the mystery of Shergar's disappearance in 1983, at the height of the...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Alison Millar

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  • 1989
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    Monkeys

    Monkeys

    1 1989 HD

    The story of John DeLorean's life, involvement in drug trafficking and eventual arrest. Based on the book 'The DeLorean Tapes' by Ivan Fallon.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Manning Redwood

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