Film & TV Location

  Stan & Ollie 

To be released in UK cinemas on January 11  2019.

 The Current War, released Jan 2018

The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.

Opening scenes with Horse and carriage filmed  on the Museum's  village streets.

 The Black Prince, film release  2017

'The Black Prince' is a story of Queen Victoria and the Last King of Punjab, Maharajah Duleep Singh.

Bikini Blue, Film release 2017

BIKINI BLUE is a UK based Post War drama, where an English-Polish couple look to build a new life in Britain, only for his past to come back to haunt them. 

The Boy Who Had It All

Independant film about  England Footballer  Duncan Edwards, filmed  2017

Filmed in various locations around the Museum's village .

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 The  Last Witness

Independent film, 2016 

An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during the Second World War. A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years.

Peaky Blinders, Series 1,2,3 &  4.   BBC Two 1920s Gangster Drama

 Our Zoo,   BBC Drama Series, 2014. The true story of Matt Charman, the man who created Chester Zoo in the 1930s. 

 Arthur & George,  ITV's three-part crime drama adaptation of Julian Barnes’ novel of the same name. Stars Martin Clunes. 

 WPC 56,   BBC period police drama series 1, 2 & 3

WPC Gina Dawson, the first woman police constable to serve in her West Midlands hometown in 1956. 

Dancing on the Edge

Stephen Poliakoff’s  explosive 1930s drama following a jazz band in London at a time of huge change.

 Land Girls, Series 1, 2 & 3 

Drama following the lives and loves of four girls away from home, doing their bit for Britain in the Women's Land Army.   

 Toast, 2010

 BBC1 film on Nigel Slater's life with Hollywood actress Helena Bonham Carter and Ken Stott

  Feast of July, 1995

 Crime  drama.  After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.

Inspector Morse,  1998

Crime Drama.   Episode: The Wench is Dead

Pigeon Summer, 1995

TV Mini series. A young girl breeds racing pigeons in the Midlands during the depression of the 1930s.

100 Homes of Britain Channel 4, Raise the Roof Productions 2018

Homes under the Hammer, Lion Television, 2018

 Saturday Kitchen, Wine feature filmed in 2017

 BBC Inside Out, filmed over various years from 2011 to present day

 BBC One Show, filmed about Peaky Blinders and Black Country Celebrations in 2016

 The Gadget Show, filmed  showing a Gadget team destination race with  sat navs , 2017

 The House, BBC 2 , 2017

 Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis

 Most Haunted  and Celebrity Ghost Hunting

 Great British Food Trip with Terry Wogan, 2015

 A Very British Romance, 2015 

 BBC FA Cup Final with Benjamin Zephaniah, 2015

Britain's Got More Talent with Stephen Mulhern, 2014

 Shop Girls, BBC2, 2014

 BBC One Show, 2014

 Great British Bake Off, BBC Episode History of the Muffin  Man, Aug 2013

 Michael Portillo's Great Railway Journeys. BBC Episode Dudley to Bridgnorth, Jan 2013

 Guy Martin's How Britain Worked. Channel 4 , Nov 2012

 Mud Men  with Johnny Vaughan, Episode Thames Shipping, Apr 2012

 The Boat that Guy built with Guy Martin, Episode  March 2011, BBC

 Who do you think you are? with Larry Lamb August 2011 

Men of Rock, 2010

Celebrity Masterchef,  2018

Cooking a feast for 90 staff and volunteers at Black Country Living Museum.

 Victorian Bakers 

Modern bakers head into the midst of the Industrial Revolution and the 1870s as they film in BCLM’s very own bakery. 

 24 hours in the Past

Celebrities experience the harsh realities for  workers in the 19th century in this BBC reality TV  show.  

History West Midlands, Ice Productions 2018

Invented in the West Midlands

 filmed by  GOSH TV, 2017

See on BBC Iplayer

Weapons of War, 2016

See on BBC Four 

Mysteries at the Museum, 2015 

Womens' Institute , BBC2 2015 

Miracles of the World, BBC 2015

Battlelines, Award winning BBC 2 Deaf community documentary, 2014

Coal and the Modern Age, US TV 2014

The Vertigo Years, Austrian TV, 2013

Industrial Revolution, BBC 2013

The Great British Story - A People History with Michael Wood, Episode The Age of Revolution, July 2012

Children of Titanic

Jack the Ripper, National Geographic 

A History of the World - The Birth of Steam with Adam Hart Davis

 Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age, 1999

Watch as Fred takes you to key factories and structures that spearheaded the industrial revolution and shows us how the machines actually worked.

CBBC All Over the Place with Sam & Mark, 2018

CBBC Our School. 2015

CBeebies Nina & the Neurons: Earth Explorers, series Autumn 2013

CBBC  Absolute Genius with Dick & Dom, Episode 7, March 2013

CBBC Hacker Time, series Hacker the Dog: Sherlock Holmes. Aug 2012

Blue Peter's Horrible Histories 2008

Blue Peter - The Victorians 2007

Cunk on Britain

Comedy series  on BBC2 spoofing the history of Britain. Filmed 2017.

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Children in Need Live Show, 2016

See the Choir Live on BBC Iplayer

See the Show at BCLM on  BBC Iplayer

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 Nationwide 2018

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NHS 70th anniversary, Firewood Productions 2018

 VRTU Healthcare, Dementia film 2018

 Premiership International Films, 2018

 Big Brum Theatre Company, 2018

Halfords 2017

filmed in the Museum's village

BBC Inside Out  triler, 2014

Brum Dancefest Trailer, 2014