This wonderfully entertaining dance documentary tells the extraordinary story of how Irish dance developed over centuries from a traditional peasant dance to a form that has taken the world by storm and is enjoyed by tens of millions. The film shows how Irish dance has both been influenced by and influenced the dance of many cultures and how it developed as an expression of resistance.

Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.

Tired of her bad luck, Fiona takes her mom on a trip to Ireland to turn things around where she meets a charming single dad who helps her make her own luck.

'The story of an Irishman's attempts to save his ancestral home through the fortunes of his racehorse.' (Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive)

This musical celebration charts the lives and careers of some of the biggest selling acts in Irish rock, punk and pop from Van Morrison and Thin Lizzy to The Undertones and U2. From the pioneers of the showbands touring in the late 50s through to the modern day, the film examines their lineage and connections and how the hardcore, rocking sound of Belfast merged with the more melodic, folky Dublin tradition to form what we now recognise as Irish rock and pop.

The story of Irish golf is as intriguing, contradictory and dramatic as the courses dotted along its coastline. The island is designed for golf. It has 3,500 miles of coastline, a landscape of granite and red sandstone mountains, unspoiled white-sand beaches, rugged cliffs that drop 400 feet to the sea and ancient dunes-all millions of years in the making. The lucky convergence of warm Gulf Stream currents, temperate weather, and lush vegetation help create one of the most spectacular golf settings on Earth. Over the course of three films, From Tee To Green explores the history, geography and cultural impact of golf on the island. The series is a journey from Irish golf 's mystical origins in Wicklow to the magical exploits of Harrington, McDowell, McIllroy and Clarke. Along the way there are great characters, tournaments won, tournaments lost, moments of great sporting drama and great financial crises - and it's all set against some of the most spectacular scenery anywhere on the ...

In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Overcoming many other obstacles, Drake's innovation to shield the well from water entry by using a drive pipe finally allows drilling to proceed until striking oil in August, 1859. His perseverance yields many barrels of oil a day, and immediately brings about the start of the oil industry.

Mario, a member of the terrorist group ETA during Franco's dictatorship, drastically changes the course of his life when, with democracy in place, the organization decides to continue killing.

A young man on the run after a stay in prison is chased through the Northern parts of Scandinavia for a murder he has not committed.

France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orphans and the abandoned people. But the times have changed, the people are living a whole revolt, the Germansoldiers have entered their city and the reality that now faces far exceeds the harshness to which they are accustomed: Hélène discovers that near her locality, the Nazis have installed a concentration camp. Along with some people of the city, several of her Sisters Daughters of Charity plot a whole plan to free the captives from their tragic end.