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Paul McGuigan

Paul McGuigan

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Biography

Paul McGuigan is an Irish film director, writer and executive producer based in Belfast. He has been most of his career working for BBC Northern Ireland. McGuigan is head of Northern Star Pictures and also works with Third Street Studios.

Known For

Lost Lives
6.0

This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Lost Lives

2019
Twentieth Century Battlefields
8.5

Father-and-son team Peter and Dan Snow embark on an epic journey to describe battles that transformed the 20th century. Known for its extensive use of "sand table" CGI effects to help viewers visualize the battles.

Twentieth Century Battlefields

2007
Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
10.0

Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the man who made Waiting for Godot.

Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett

2019
Coast Lives
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Weatherman Barra Best voyages around the Northern Irish coastline

Coast Lives

2018
Walk the Line
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Barra Best sets out to uncover and explore some of Northern Ireland's lost railways.

Walk the Line

2014
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Series exploring life in, on and around three of Northern Ireland's major rivers.

Riverland

2014
Car Crash: The Delorean Story
7.0

Former General Motors high-flyer John DeLorean had a plan to build a stylish European sports car, at a price that would make it attractive to the American market. The site he chose for his state-of-the-art factory was on the outskirts of Belfast, a city best-known for sectarian violence and high levels of unemployment. The unexpected marriage of high-tech glamour with the gritty reality of 1970s Northern Ireland captured the public's imagination but this early optimism would end in failure. Although the cars looked great, the windows leaked and the engines seized; as his financial problems mounted the maverick DeLorean faced charges of drugs trafficking. Adrian Dunbar narrates the story.

Car Crash: The Delorean Story

2004
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Darryl Grimason goes on a scuba diving adventure around the shores of Northern Ireland.

Waterworld

2006
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For twenty-seven years Hart has sought sanctuary in the anonymity of the same suite, the Girona, in the same hotel, on the same night of the year – the 26th October. Into his life walks Sophie, a beguiling young woman with the hint of a dark past, could she be the ghost of his long dead wife?

Girona

2015
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Fly-on-the-wall documentary series charting a year in the lives of the residents of a Coleraine housing estate in Ballysally

The Estate

2012
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Presenter Holly Hamilton tells the feelgood story of the Glentoran team who left Belfast on a European football adventure just before the First World War to win the Vienna Cup, the first ever European Cup.

Belfast's Victory in Vienna: A Footballing Odyssey

2022
Limbo
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Brendan’s mother Eilis reveals a dark secret on her deathbed, one to which Brendan must find the answer – what happened to her lost child?

Limbo

2019
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Following Derry city bursary winners as they participate in the various stages of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race

The Legenderrys

2013
Ruthless
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In 1970’s Northern Ireland, a young boy, bereft of his mother, defies his father to get the Glam Rock album he so desperately wants. It’s Belfast - early 70’s… BOOM! Something’s in the air and it’s not a bomb, it’s a revolution. Glam Rock is drowning out the noise of armoured cars. As British soldiers patrol the streets, kids are glued to Top Of The Pops, entranced by Marc Bolan, the androgynous, satin-clad, glitter-god. In a high-rise flat lives a recently bereaved father and his ten-year-old son PJ, who is desperate to get his hands on the new T. Rex album Electric Warrior. The problem is he’s skint and his Da is on the dole. PJ comes up with a cunning plan to get the dough, involving a sock, a prosthetic leg and a pawnbroker. Ruthless is a humorous, heartwarming story of how a prosthetic leg and a T. Rex album become the conduit for overcoming grief.

Ruthless

2021
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Peter Taylor has been covering the conflict in Northern Ireland for more than 40 years. On the 20th anniversary of the 1994 ceasefires, he makes a personal assessment of who really 'won the war'.

Who Won the War?

2014
Little Ships - The Miracle of Dunkirk
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To mark the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation, Dan Snow tells the story of the 'little ships' which made the perilous cross-channel voyage, as 50 of them return to France.

Little Ships - The Miracle of Dunkirk

2010
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Film-maker Alison Millar spent a year behind the scenes with the ladies of the Loyal Orange Lodges of Ireland. Given unprecedented access, her film reveals for the first time the private rituals and ceremonies of this secretive organisation.

Sisters of the Lodge

2011
Whiskey Talkin'
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Mark Thompson teams up with historian Dr Fionnan O’Connor to discover the fascinating story of what was once the greatest whiskey industry in the world.

Whiskey Talkin'

2021
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Three young women break bread - and possibly each other - over a late supper at the Fleadh.

Wishbone

2019
This Town Still Talks About You
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In the barren west coast of Ireland, a rusted, iron cable car connects Dursey Island to the mainland, hanging precariously over a wild Atlantic Ocean. Between the waves and the wind, storms and secrets brew - dividing or reuniting family. For years, Ciaran has kept a relationship with his estranged father hidden. Following the death of their mother, his older brother Padraig returns to the island. Everyone knows everyone here, and secrets have a talent at getting out - This Town Still Talks About You is a universal story of human connection against a stark landscape, an atmospheric exploration of the Irish family identity.

This Town Still Talks About You

2022