Ferndale Films Movies

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on...

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.

A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

The story of 11 young Irish Dunnes Stores workers who went on strike following their refusal to handle South African produce.

The name of the documentary comes from Drew's recording of "September Song", the Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson song made popular through recordings by a number of artists. With the founding of his revolutionary folk band, The Dubliners in 1962, Ronnie Drew has become synonymous with his native...

The Settle & Carlisle Railway soars across the Pennines on lofty viaducts with a mystique unrivalled by any other railway. Today its grandeur recreates the railway's greatest days - when steam was king. Steam locomotives from the mighty Mallard and the world famous Flying Scotsman, Duchess of...