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

Most of the exteriors were shot about 30 miles away, same area I ride my bike most weekends. Most interior shots, done just down the road.

Opening scenes from “American Werewolf in London” filmed just up the road. “Don’t stray from the path” Come to think of it, I was riding that very stretch last night, in the dark, in the fog…. good job I never stopped to think about the film 🙂

Oh and the same road is used in the opening credits of the Antiques Roadshow with the grandfather clock in the old Mogie convertible.

My farm gets a brief showing in the background of a Go-Compare advert lol

Dead Mans Shoes was filmed around Matlock – ace film!

And who knows how many period dramas at Haddon Hall

Howards Way and a pic of the Jolly Sailor before it got refurbed and the Landing Marquee shuved on the front..

Where I grew up, Kes and Brassed Off.
My mums school was used for Filming Kes, she remembers that the kid who plays the lead role was a little bastard.
Grime thorps was just up the road from Ardsleymark, where I grew up and I’m sure it was far grimmer in real life than in the film.

A few I imagine, this one I remember as I have worked in the IFC and Ceentral buildings.

All filmed round me and its also my station area so im kept busy. And the pub is that crap

Local Hero
Highlander
Being Human
RobRoy
Braveheart
Harry Potter
Restless Natives

Emerdale.

I rode through the old village the other day and just past the new set the day before.

Deliverance

The Hills Have Eyes

Robin hood (the one which Russell crow has 8 different accents)
Harry Potter
Top gear (Pendine sands)
Lion witch in the wardrobe
Country file last week
Antiques road trip
Annas Welsh zoo (her **** ex husband Colin very nearly killed me overtaking me)

The original (afaik) Happy pastiche…

Just missed out on taking the Pulitzer that year.

I used to live on Stella Street, Mick and Keith’s shop was my corner shop.

Most of you need to re-read the thread question.

Shoestring!

Oh… You mean not just guess.
Spoil sport.

[pedant]teasel – Member
Most of you need to re-read the thread question.[/pedant]

tidy it up folks … too late to delete my post …ashamed

Letter to Brechnev,

Bread,

Boys from the blackstuff,

Captain America was filmed accross the river,

Margret Thatcher, my part in her downfall

Threads 🙂

In Letchworth Garden City here – we’ve had ‘The Worlds End’ with Simon Pegg & bits of Top Gear filmed around the streets. We do actually have UKs first roundabout – not a lot of people know that………

Sheffield.

between them, The Full Monty and Four Lions have it pretty much covered.

As for scenes from movies, I used to work in Thurrock and the small church from Four Weddings and a Funeral was next to the car park for Proctor & Gamble chemical works. That in itself looks like the chemical works from Batman were jack Nicholson falls in the green goop and becomes the Joker.

I swear that A League of Gentlemen and Royston Vasey is actually a fly on the wall documentary about Hereford.

I can only think of this exquisite show of culture

‘Penda’s Fen’ (named after Pinvin village nr Pershore) was set in the Malvern area.

Oddly enough one of the most bizarre films I think I’ve seen. Saw it first as a kid and the images haunted me long after.

Rather upsetting really, but it’s either “Angela’s Ashes” or some ‘hard hitting crime report’ about gangland crime. I’m entirely unaware of something good and uplifting coming out of Limerick. Although, there was a brilliant music video by Fox Jaw called ‘Hatch Sixteen’.

Lots of period dramas
That one with the cheekbones and his hobbit mate doing Sherlock the other month
and lots more period dramas

That’s all very interesting, but the question was not what’s been filmed there, but films about the area where you live. 😀

Boardin Bob will be along in a minute to claim ‘The Scheme’ 😯

I really don’t know of any documentaries.

There was a shortlived kids’ sitcom – Graham’s Gang in the 70s. It was filmed locally and some kids from my school were extras. They filmed an episode in the local park, which we tried our best to sabotage, being the little Leigh Park hooligans we were.

Mine is about where I live – and not even about somewhere near where I live, I live where that was filmed 😉

Well Howards Way is essentially a documentary as what happened in it happens in real life down here..

Anyways, whats wrong with opening it up a bit?

movie about? or movie filmed on location in?

documentaries about = probably loads (countryfile for certain).
movies about = probably must be something wartime, edit: and half the dickens stuff

movies/tv filmed “on location” = shed loads (think there was a thread not that long ago?) – call the midwife and james bond filmed in basically the exact same spot for starters.
(where on location means pretending to be somewhere totally different)

ps that’s for back home. no idea for here, cos I don’t watch German TV/movies.

Whistle Down the Wind and some shmaltz with James Bolam were filmed in Downham just up the road. Lord and Lady Clitheroe own the place and they don’t allow tv aerials etc in the village

this cheery piece of social commentary.

Think I may have “won” this one gents … 🙂

The documentary Trainspotting