Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
star 7.1
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for...
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Acting
Tony Wilson
Anthony Howard "Tony" Wilson was an English record label owner, radio and television presenter, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC. As the head of Factory Records and one of the owners of the infamous Hacienda nightclub, Wilson was the man behind some of Manchester's most successful bands and was known as Mr Manchester. His day job as a broadcaster saw him present programmes such as regional news show Granada Reports, music showcase So It Goes, World in Action, After Dark, Remote Control, Granada Upfront and the Politics Show to name but a few. His role in the music industry formed the basis of Michael Winterbottom's acclaimed film 24 Hour Party People.
Filmography
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World in Action
1963
star 7.0
World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec...
Arthouse
1997
Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.
The Keith Barret Show
2004
star 7.3
Spoof chat show that sees divorced character Keith Barret explore what makes a successful relationship, with a...
24 Hour Party People
2002
star 7.0
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make h...
A Cock and Bull Story
2005
star 6.2
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role...
Joy Division
2009
star 7.6
A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band.
Banned in the UK
2005
Four-part series demonstrating different kinds of censorship, such as censorship by the government or of art.
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
2015
star 8.7
Documentary that outlines the 1990s and the decade the changed the world.
Play At Home
1984
A one-off series of sixty minute shows where a band were given total control over the programme's content with...
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021
star 6.6
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her moth...
New Order Story
1993
star 7.2
Rising from the ashes of the legendary British post-punk unit Joy Division, the enigmatic New Order triumphed o...
Occupy!
1976
star 10.0
Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in...
The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith
2005
star 5.6
A 1-hour Documentary looking at the Manchester post-punk group and its infamous leader Mark E Smith. The Film f...
Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn
2009
star 7.0
Most rock fans may not know the name Anton Corbijn, but they've certainly seen his work. Corbijn shot the iconi...
Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays
2007
star 7.7
Documentary celebrating the triumph, tragedy and human comedy that was Manchester record company, Factory. Star...
New Order: Decades
2018
star 6.6
Part concert, part documentary, this film follows the band’s preparations in the re-staging of their acclaimed...
Ian Dury: Rare And Unseen
2010
star 7.0
Here is the movie for all the Clever Trevors and Billericay Dickies out there! A stunning and truly 'Rare and U...
The Frontline
1993
star 6.0
Upon his release from a mental hospital, James re-kindles his relationship with pirate DJ Marion, helping her k...
The Alcohol Years
2000
star 7.3
Carol Morley returns to Manchester, where in the early 1980s, five years of her life were lost in an alcoholic...
Factory: Play at Home
1984
An examination into Factory Records. The members of New Order interview founders Tony Wilson and Martin Hannett...
The Summer of Rave, 1989
2006
star 7.5
In the final days of the yuppie decade, the summer of ’89 saw a new type of youth rebellion rip through the cul...
Funny Up North
2011
star 6.0
Documentary featuring a cavalcade of Northern comedy stars including the great Frank Randle, George Formby, Art...
The Smiths: Under Review
2006
This in-depth retrospective surveys the history and music of the Smiths via interviews with the band, expert co...
The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead - A Classic Album Under Review
2008
Showing for the first time how it all came together and what made it so great, the film is all at once hugely e...
The Way They Were: Punk and the New Wave 1976-1978
1986
A compilation of performances by bands taken from his previous TV shows in the late 70's, such as "So It Goes",...
Manchester Passion
2006
The Manchester Passion is a passion play about the last hours of Jesus, retold using a backdrop of the contempo...
Shadowplayers: Factory Records and Manchester Post-Punk 1978-81
2006
Shadowplayers is a two hour documentary film by James Nice tracing the early history of iconic Manchester Label...
That Tony Wilson
2002
A portrait of Tony Wilson the visionary, provocateur, and self-styled cultural revolutionary who put Manchester...
Madchester: The Sound of the North
1990
Exploring the 'Madchester' music phenomena of the late '80s and early '90s. The band Northside appears in inter...
Catch: The Hold Not Taken
2005
star 5.0
Catch: The Hold Not Taken is a 2005 feature documentary film that contrasts the billion dollar industry of prof...
Music Maker: Rory Gallagher
1973
Director Bill Keating built a programme around following Rory through a day of his short 1972 Irish tour. At th...
New Order: Pumped Full of Drugs
1986
New Order filmed live in concert in Tokyo, May 2nd 1985