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

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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