Tony Wilson Movies
- 2006
The Smiths: Under Review
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This in-depth retrospective surveys the history and music of the Smiths via interviews with the band, expert commentary and insights from insiders, in...
- 2010
Ian Dury: Rare And Unseen
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Here is the movie for all the Clever Trevors and Billericay Dickies out there! A stunning and truly 'Rare and Unseen' look back at Ian Dury, poet, thi...
- 2006
Shadowplayers: Factory Records and Manchester Post-Punk 1978-81
Shadowplayers: Factory Records and Manchester Post-Punk 1978-8102006HD
Shadowplayers is a two hour documentary film by James Nice tracing the early history of iconic Manchester Label Factory Records between 1978 and 1981....
- 1990
Madchester: The Sound of the North
Madchester: The Sound of the North01990HD
Exploring the 'Madchester' music phenomena of the late '80s and early '90s. The band Northside appears in interview, rehearsal, live in concert and ev...
- 2005
Catch: The Hold Not Taken
Catch: The Hold Not Taken52005HD
Catch: The Hold Not Taken is a 2005 feature documentary film that contrasts the billion dollar industry of professional wrestling with its humble root...
- 2005
A Cock and Bull Story
A Cock and Bull Story6.22005HD
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opin...
- 2006
Manchester Passion
Manchester Passion02006HD
The Manchester Passion is a passion play about the last hours of Jesus, retold using a backdrop of the contemporary music of Manchester, England. The...
- 2002
24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People6.9232002HD
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changi...
- 2000
The Alcohol Years
The Alcohol Years72000HD
Carol Morley returns to Manchester, where in the early 1980s, five years of her life were lost in an alcoholic blur. The Alcohol Years is a poetic ret...
- 2009
Joy Division
Joy Division7.6572009HD
A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band.
- 1976
Occupy!
Occupy!01976HD
Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation hyb...
- 1993
New Order Story
New Order Story6.81993HD
Rising from the ashes of the legendary British post-punk unit Joy Division, the enigmatic New Order triumphed over tragedy to emerge as one of the mos...
- 1993
The Frontline
The Frontline51993HD
Upon his release from a mental hospital, James re-kindles his relationship with pirate DJ Marion, helping her kick her nasty heroin addiction. However...
- 2008
The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead - A Classic Album Under Review
The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead - A Classic Album Under Review02008HD
Showing for the first time how it all came together and what made it so great, the film is all at once hugely enlightening, downright entertaining, an...
- 1986
New Order: Pumped Full of Drugs
New Order: Pumped Full of Drugs01986HD
New Order filmed live in concert in Tokyo, May 2nd 1985
- 2005
The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith
The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith5.62005HD
A 1-hour Documentary looking at the Manchester post-punk group and its infamous leader Mark E Smith. The Film follows the current band recording their...
- 1984
Factory: Play at Home
Factory: Play at Home01984HD
An examination into Factory Records. The members of New Order interview founders Tony Wilson and Martin Hannett, who speak on the philosophical and cu...
- 2007
Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays
Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays7.72007HD
Documentary celebrating the triumph, tragedy and human comedy that was Manchester record company, Factory. Started by the late Tony Wilson, Alan Erasm...
- 2018
New Order: Decades
New Order: Decades6.62018HD
Part concert, part documentary, this film follows the band’s preparations in the re-staging of their acclaimed collaboration So It Goes.. with the art...
- 2015
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World8.72015HD
Documentary that outlines the 1990s and the decade the changed the world.