Landmarks & buildings
Beckton Gas Works
Major London gasworks
Wikipedia names Beckton Gas Works as where 5 films and series were filmed; each title’s page links to the sentence that says so. Wikidata records no shoot here yet.
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Wikipedia says these were filmed in Beckton Gas Works. Each title’s page links to the sentence that says so.
Full Metal JacketWar film1987
For Your Eyes OnlySpy film1981
Nineteen Eighty-FourScience fiction film1984- BigglesScience fiction film1986
- Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the FutureScience fiction film1985
Named here by Beckton Gas Works’s own Wikipedia article
Beckton Gas Works’s own Wikipedia page says these were shot here. Not on the map: each title’s page quotes the sentence so you can check it.
- Full Metal JacketWar film1987
- For Your Eyes OnlySpy film1981
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Town in the London Borough of Newham, England
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Royal Docks
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Electoral ward in the London borough of Newham
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London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
England · 2 km north
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Port of London
England · 2 km south-west
Port along the banks of the River Thames
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London Borough of Newham
England · 3 km west
Borough in the London Region in England
What Wikipedia says about Beckton Gas Works
5 sentences quoted word for word from Wikipedia, each with the production it describes and a link to the article it comes from.
Full Metal Jacket 1987
“Scenes were filmed in Cambridgeshire, the Norfolk Broads, in East London at Millennium Mills and Beckton Gas Works in Newham and on the Isle of Dogs.” Wikipedia
For Your Eyes Only 1981
“The pre-credits sequence used the churchyard of the Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire as a cemetery, while the helicopter scenes were filmed at the abandoned Beckton Gas Works in London.” Wikipedia
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future 1985
“Exterior locations include the Beckton Gas Works.” Wikipedia
Full Metal Jacket 1987
“In the film, Dickson drives Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe to an apocalyptic wasteland, the scenes of which were filmed at Beckton, very close to the same area used in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket.” Wikipedia
For Your Eyes Only 1981
“The opening sequence of the 1981 James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only was filmed here.” Wikipedia