What movies or documentaries have been made about the area you live in?

The obvious one for here is Trainspotting, but the best bit of film making I’ve seen is Garry Forest’s Everybody’s Child.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2433408/

Just over the hill.

A little closer to home.

the only thing i can think of offhand is that part of 1984 (john hurt version) was filmed on roundway hill near where i live (devizes) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_%28film%29

In contrast, the idyllic, dreamlike “Golden Country”, where Winston and Julia repair for their first tryst and which recurs in Winston’s fantasies, was filmed in the southwest county of Wiltshire at a natural circle of hills called “The Roundway”, near the town of Devizes.

Not that many.

Films
1964 Becket
1971 Mary, Queen of Scots
1979 The Spaceman and King Arthur
1982 Ivanhoe, starring Anthony Andrews and James Mason
1990 or 1991 The Timekeeper
1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1998 Monk Dawson
1998 Elizabeth (film)
2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2010 Robin Hood, directed by Ridley Scott

Television

1977 Count Dracula
1983 The Black Adder
1984–86 Robin of Sherwood
1987 Treasure Hunt
1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation
1993 The Show
1994 Highway
1994 The Dwelling Place
1995 Antiques Roadshow
1995 The Fast Show
1995 The Glass Virgin
1995–6 The Famous Five
1997 Ivanhoe
1998 A Knight in Camelot
1999–2000 Badger
2000 A Dinner of Herbs
2000 Watercolour Challenge
2004 Bloody Britain
2005 The Virgin Queen.
2009 Dickinson’s Real Deal
2011 Red or Black?
2012 Flog It!
2012 The Hollow Crown
2014 Downton Abbey[25]

Not a movie, but Breaking Bad

Brittas empire and one foot in the grave.

the wickerman…

Where I grew up, same list as Drac.

Currently
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The Hunter

I believe there was an episode or two of “Who do you think you are?”

and

Edited for the Cap’n, well spotted!

This is the countryside around my workshop (skip forward to about 1 min)

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I keep meaning to see if I can find a TV drama made in the 90s about the early pioneers of facial reconstruction during WW2 and maybe with Richard Wilson in it. – It was filmed in and around my house before it was a house.

Midlifecrashes, if you had posted those two the other way round, you just know there’d be a FRACAS!

*Edit – You’ve done it now! You can just see it in his eyes…..Hmmmm, pasties! FRACAPOCALYPSE NOW!

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2009/5/28/1243526497019/Richard-Harris-in-a-scene-001.jpg

used to live in bampton, so the set of downton abbey.

most of the top gear (rip) countryside driving stuff was/is filmed around Charlbury/Chipping Norton, like the Peugeot bit used the double mini roundabout where I stalled in front of Clarkson himself.

It seems there are documentaries about this area every bloody week!

Kes…..barnsley

I win

295 episodes of this, just over the hill:

And a load of other shite too. Where The Heart Is is/was filmed here. They blocked our road up with film trucks for something or other with Michael Palin last year, and the local charity shop got a new paint job after featuring in a movie with Sigourney Weaver in it.

Most importantly, I freqently start my rides by heading up past here:

Recently

More famously

Bits of Warhorse filmed near us. (moorland stuff). About half of the footage in the binge drinking documentary ‘unruly britannia’ was filmed in Plymouth.
My favourite was a documentary about crop circles back in the day, with some pseuds and droods pontificating on a rash of new crop circles in east cornwall that the documentary crew were also filming being made by 2 of my mates and a lot of cider. 😀

Carl Sagan – Cosmos.

has any area escaped this lot

Klunk – Member
has any area escaped this lot

Waitrose in Salisbury often sees him on the left there! Nice guy.

Movies/docs ABOUT or filmed in the area you live in?

I also forgot The Thirty Nine Steps was filmed all round here, upto and around Killin where we used to live.

Tracy Beaker was filmed at the end of my road. I watched them doing it.

too young to remember, but this.

Most of Kes was fimed in the village where we grew up. The author lived on the next street.

Oh wait I’ve just read the title of the thread again. 😳

Twin Town 😯

Used to enjoy Howards Way. 😀

putting brentford on the map

that is a brutally accurate represntation of some of the locals

Much of this was shot in my hood…

Some of these too…

A small couple of scenes from this…

this morning I’ll be riding down to the beach in Melbourne:

lived here for many years:

was born here: [notyorkshire]

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Aye, Trainspotting.

You in Muirhouse too cfinnimore?

Never watched it, mind you.