Editing Michael Collins (Irish leader) (section)

===Film and television===
[[File:Bust of Michael Collins at Merrion Square Park, Dublin, Ireland..JPG|left|thumb|Bust of Michael Collins at Merrion Square Park, Dublin, Ireland.]]
The 1936 film ''[[Beloved Enemy]]'' is a fictionalised account of Collins' life. Unlike the real Michael Collins, the fictionalised "Dennis Riordan" (played by [[Brian Aherne]]) is shot but recovers. ''[[Hang Up Your Brightest Colours]]'', a British [[documentary film|documentary]] by [[Kenneth Griffith]], was made for [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] in 1973, but refused transmission. It was eventually screened by the [[BBC]] in [[Wales]] in 1993 and across the United Kingdom the following year.

In 1969, [[Dominic Behan]] wrote an episode of the UK television series ''[[Play for Today]]'' entitled "Michael Collins". The play dealt with Collins' attempt to take the gun out of Irish politics and took the perspective of the republican argument. At the time of writing the script, [[the Troubles]] had just begun in Northern Ireland and the BBC was reluctant to broadcast the production. An appeal by the author to [[David Attenborough]] (Director of Programming for the BBC at that time) resulted in the play eventually being broadcast; Attenborough took the view that the imperatives of free speech could not be compromised in the cause of political expediency.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

A [[Blest Souls|1987 film production based on Collins' life]], directed by [[Michael Cimino]], was halted due to objections from Irish locals.

An [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] documentary made by [[Colm Connolly (journalist)|Colm Connolly]] for [[RTÉ Television]] in 1989 called ''The Shadow of Béal na Bláth'' covered Collins' death. A made-for-TV film, ''[[The Treaty (film)|The Treaty]]'', was produced in 1991 and starred [[Brendan Gleeson]] as Collins and [[Ian Bannen]] as David Lloyd George. In 2007, RTÉ produced a documentary entitled ''Get Collins'', about the intelligence war which took place in Dublin.<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/tv/hiddenhistory/getcollins.html RTE.ie] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030033543/http://www.rte.ie/tv/hiddenhistory/getcollins.html |date=30 October 2008 }}, "Get Collins"</ref><ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1227857/ IMDb] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210141834/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1227857/ |date=10 February 2017 }}, "Get Collins"</ref>

Collins was the subject of director [[Neil Jordan]]'s 1996 film ''[[Michael Collins (film)|Michael Collins]]'', with [[Liam Neeson]] in the title role. Collins' great-grandnephew, Aengus O'Malley, played a student in a scene filmed in [[Marsh's Library]].

In 2005 [[Cork Opera House]] commissioned a musical drama about Collins.<ref>[http://www.corkoperahouse.ie/musicals/Old_Musical_Files/michael_collins_a%20_musical_drama.php Cork Opera House] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415160923/http://corkoperahouse.ie/musicals/Old_Musical_Files/michael_collins_a%20_musical_drama.php |date=15 April 2009 }}</ref> "Michael Collins- A Musical Drama" by Bryan Flynn had a successful run in 2009 at Cork opera house and later in the [[Olympia Theatre, Dublin|Olympia Theatre]] in Dublin.

''Infamous Assassinations'', a 2007 British documentary television series, devoted its eighth episode to the death of Collins.

The 2016 miniseries, ''[[Rebellion (miniseries)|Rebellion]]'', focused on the 1916 Easter Rising. Collins appeared as a background character, taking part in the uprising, played by Sebastian Thommen.

Collins was portrayed by [[Gavin Drea]] in the 2019 sequel to ''Rebellion'', ''[[Resistance (miniseries)|Resistance]]''.