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Banksy walls, bouncing music and ships that sailed the triangular trade: Bristol's merchant wealth came from enslaved labor, a history the city reckons with more openly every year. Teenagers own its screen image. Skins started here; Being Human haunted it. Open Bristol on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 16 books, 8 movies and 2 TV shows set in Bristol.
Skins
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Starter for 10
In 1985 against the backdrop of Thatcherism Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University…
Treasure Island
"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic…
Being Human
The central premise of Being Human is that various types of supernatural beings exist alongside human beings, with varying degrees of menace; that three of these supernatural beings are opting to live amongst human…
Only Time Will Tell
From the internationally bestselling author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans,…
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
A look behind the scenes at Cortlandt Hull's "The Witch's Dungeon" a movie-themed Halloween attraction in Bristol Connecticut -- now the longest-running show of its type in the United States.
The Sense of an Ending
By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and,…
Wallace & Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation
Anthology of Aardman Animation short films released in theaters in 1996 centered on the new release of the third Wallace & Gromit short "A Close Shave." Includes: "A Close Shave" "Creature Comforts" and "Heat Electric…
Remote Area Medical
Amid the nation’s ongoing debate over health care reform this bracing new documentary examines the everyday realities of Americans who lack access to affordable medical treatment. Filmed during three days in the…
Princess Caraboo
Bristol England early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect it is understood that the woman is a…
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