Maurice Sweeney

Born to Run: The Secrets of Kenyan Athletics (2012)

The role of Irish missionaries in securing Kenya's dominance in world athletics. He meets Brother Colm O'Connell, a modest priest who played a major role in fostering Kenyan distance running and who is now considered one of the world's top athletics coaches.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maurice Sweeney
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The role of Irish missionaries in securing Kenya's dominance in world athletics. He meets Brother Colm O'Connell, a modest priest who played a major role in fostering Kenyan distance running and who is now considered one of the world's top athletics coaches.  (more)

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Saving the Titanic (2012)

In the hours after the Titanic struck an iceberg 100 years ago, a team of shipbuilders and engineers raced against time to save the stricken vessel. Based on eye-witness accounts, this film reveals what went on below decks in the hours before the Titanic sank, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maurice Sweeney
CAST:  Liam Cunningham  •  David Wilmot  •  Ciarán McMenamin  •  Owen McDonnell

In the hours after the Titanic struck an iceberg 100 years ago, a team of shipbuilders and engineers raced against time to save the stricken vessel. Based on eye-witness accounts, this film reveals what went on below decks in the hours before the Titanic sank, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maurice Sweeney
CAST:  Liam Cunningham  •  David Wilmot  •  Ciarán McMenamin  •  Owen McDonnell

I, Dolours (2018)

Dolours Price, the infamous IRA radical convicted of bombing England's Old Bailey in 1973, granted a series of revealing interviews in 2010 on the strict condition of their posthumous release. The interviews, brought to life through vividly cinematic reenactments, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maurice Sweeney
CAST:  Dolours Price  •  Lorna Larkin  •  Lauren Beale  •  Gail Brady

Dolours Price, the infamous IRA radical convicted of bombing England's Old Bailey in 1973, granted a series of revealing interviews in 2010 on the strict condition of their posthumous release. The interviews, brought to life through vividly cinematic reenactments, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maurice Sweeney
CAST:  Dolours Price  •  Lorna Larkin  •  Lauren Beale  •  Gail Brady

Khorfakkan (2020)

In the beginning of 1500's, during the Portuguese conquests on Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Arabian Gulf, a village on the edge of sea revolts against the Portuguese rule and conquer after years of oppression, In pursuit of freedom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maurice Sweeney  •  Ben Mole
CAST:  Rashid Assaf  •  Jasim Al Kharraz  •  Qays Sheikh Najib  •  Kasem Malho

In the beginning of 1500's, during the Portuguese conquests on Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Arabian Gulf, a village on the edge of sea revolts against the Portuguese rule and conquer after years of oppression, In pursuit of freedom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maurice Sweeney  •  Ben Mole
CAST:  Rashid Assaf  •  Jasim Al Kharraz  •  Qays Sheikh Najib  •  Kasem Malho