Storm Front in Mayo

Storm Front in Mayo

2019/05/28 • Released • English

Documentary
History
TV Movie
7.5
53m

Overview

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.

Director : Gerry Gregg

Casts

Eva Sweeney

Young Maureen Flavin Sweeney

Colin Wright

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mike Johnson

Captain James Stagg

John Downes

Met Éireann Telephone Operator

Antony Beevor

Self - Historian

Robert Gerwarth

Self - Historian

Susan Eisenhower

Self - Eisenhower's Granddaughter

Joseph Skelly

Self - Historian

Richard G. Trefry

Self - Retired US Army Lt. General

Maureen Flavin Sweeney

Self - Weather Observer (1944)

Gerald Fleming

Self - Meteorologist

David McCullagh

Self - Journalist

Catherine Ross

Self - British Met Office Archivist

Jeremy Green

Self - British Military Police Colonel

Rodney Teck

Self - Climate Researcher

John C. Sweeney

Self - Climate Researcher

Vincent Sweeney

Self - Lighthouse Keeper

Richard Callaghan

Self - Royal MP Museum Curator

Joe Cattini

Self - D-Day Veteran

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Bernard Montgomery

Bernard Montgomery

Self - British Military (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self - US Military (archive footage)

Éamon de Valera

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel

Self - German Military (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self - Politician (archive footage)

James Stagg

Self - Meteorologist (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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