Directed credits
21
Established
Strong directing catalog.
Director
Alan Gilsenan
Directing
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Directed movies: 21Directed series: 0All crew credits: 21
TMDB ID: 1039913
IMDb ID: nm0319690
Known for: Directing
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Career span: 1988 - 2026
Years active: 39
Wikidata: Q4706714
Frequent jobs
Director (20)Director of Photography (1)
Biography
Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director. His documentaries, which range from robust investigation to essayistic reverie to sensitive observation, are distinguished by intellectual rigour and creative innovation, allied to a seemingly unquenchable curiosity about history, literature, culture and society – both in Ireland but also in the wider world. His highly eclectic oeuvre of over 40 films for cinema and television also provides an invaluable compendium of reflection on Irish minds and Irish matters over four decades.
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Alan Gilsenan.
Director
The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones
2026 • Movie
Director
We Only Want the Earth
2026 • Movie
Director of Photography
The Days of Trees
2024 • Movie
Director
The Irish Question
2024 • Movie
Director
The United Irishmen
2023 • Movie
Director
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy
2023 • Movie
Director
The Seven Ages of Noël Browne
2023 • Movie
Director
Ghosts of Baggotonia
2022 • Movie
Director
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
2022 • Movie
Director
The Great Book of Ireland
2020 • Movie
Director
The Meeting
2018 • Movie
Director
Meetings with Ivor
2017 • Movie
Director
Unless
2016 • Movie
Director
A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators
2014 • Movie
Director
Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay
2013 • Movie
Director
Timbuktu
2004 • Movie
Director
The Ghost of Roger Casement
2002 • Movie
Director
Zulu 9
2001 • Movie
Director
All Souls' Day
1997 • Movie
Director
The Road to God Knows Where
1988 • Movie
Director
The Yellow Bittern
Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Alan Gilsenan.
Director
The Road to God Knows Where
1988 • Movie
Director
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
2022 • Movie
Director
Unless
2016 • Movie
Director
The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones
2026 • Movie
Director
Timbuktu
2004 • Movie
Director
We Only Want the Earth
2026 • Movie
Director
Zulu 9
2001 • Movie
Director
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy
2023 • Movie
Director
The Ghost of Roger Casement
2002 • Movie
Director
The Seven Ages of Noël Browne
2023 • Movie
Director
Ghosts of Baggotonia
2022 • Movie
Director
Meetings with Ivor
2017 • Movie