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Stories Set in Birmingham
Canals, Balti triangles and Britain's second-city chip: Birmingham built the industrial revolution in its workshops. Gangsters gave it screen fame a century later. Peaky Blinders flat-capped it; Line of Duty interrogates in it. Open Birmingham on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Birmingham on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Birmingham
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Browse 9 books, 19 movies and 2 TV shows set in Birmingham.
Peaky Blinders
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Line of Duty
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Peaky Blinders: The True Story
The story of the real Peaky Blinders and how they became a TV sensation. Hear of the actual gangsters who became leading characters in the series and the real events behind many of the main story lines learn the…
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
It's first the story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women-of the irrepressibly…
Peaky Blinders: A peek behind the curtain
Documentary feature about the shooting of season 3 of the british tv show Peaky Blinders.
Status Quo - Just Doin' It!
40 Years of Quo Classics filmed Live at Birmingham NEC England May 21st 2006.
Black Sabbath: The End of The End
Chronicles the final tour from Black Sabbath. On February 4th 2017 Black Sabbath takes the stage in Birmingham the city where it all began to play the 81st and final gig of the tour and bring down the curtain on a…
WWE Armageddon 2000
Armageddon (2000) was a professional wrestling PPV that took place on December 10 2000 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center in Birmingham Alabama. It was the second annual Armageddon event and the only WWE…
4 Little Girls
On September 15 1963 a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham Alabama killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the…
Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO
Documentary which gets to the heart of who Jeff Lynne is and how he has had such a tremendous musical influence on our world. The story is told by the British artist himself and such distinguished collaborators and…
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