🏙 Towns & cities
Manchester
city in Greater Manchester, England
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · 53.4667, -2.2333
Manchester is recorded as a filming location for 5 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Manchester, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 10 more. 1 anime is also set here.
1 production was filmed at 1 place inside Manchester rather than at Manchester itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.
“In March, filming took place in Manchester's Northern Quarter, doubling for New York City.”
Movies and TV series filmed in Manchester
- Captain America: The First Avenger 2011
- Peaky Blinders 2013–2022
- Morbius 2022
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Queer as Folk
1999–2000
“Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street, where it was also filmed.” Wikipedia
- Houdini and Doyle 2016–
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Manchester as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
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Sherlock Holmes
2009
“Filming was conducted in Manchester's Northern Quarter.” Wikipedia
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The Crown
2016–2023
“Shooting locations used to double foreign settings included Manchester (as New York City), Málaga and Almería (as Sydney and other Australian settings), as well as Atlanterra, Cádiz (as Mustique).” Wikipedia
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Darkest Hour
2017
“Filming took place in Manchester, England, at both the Town Hall and John Rylands Library, both doubling for the Houses of Parliament and featuring heavily in the film.” Wikipedia
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Sherlock Holmes
1984–
“Most of the locations used for filming can be found in Cheshire, Liverpool and Manchester.” Wikipedia
- Red Dwarf 1988–
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Control
2007
“Control was filmed partly on location in Nottingham, Manchester, and Macclesfield, including areas where Curtis lived, and was shot in colour and then printed to black-and-white.” Wikipedia
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The 51st State
2001
“Almost all of the film was shot on location in Liverpool apart from the opening scene which was shot in Los Angeles, a driving scene which was filmed in Manchester and another scene which was filmed at Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire.” Wikipedia
- A Very English Scandal 2018–
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Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
1974
“The opening montage was filmed in Manchester city centre.” Wikipedia
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Das Boot
2018–
“In England, specifically, Liverpool and Manchester were used for the scenes set in New York.” Wikipedia
Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Manchester
1 production shot at 1 place inside Manchester, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Manchester itself.
- Ted Lasso Old Trafford per Wikipedia 2020–2023
Set here
Anime that take place here. Nothing drawn was ever filmed here, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood — a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.
Set here, per Wikipedia
Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Manchester, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.
Filming locations nearby
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Odsal Stadium
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Sports Venue and Stadium
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Queen Street Mill
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
building in Harle Syke, to the north-east of Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Manchester Town Hall
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
municipal building in Manchester, England
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🏙 Towns & cities
Northern Quarter
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
area in Manchester, England
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🏙 Towns & cities
Bradford
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
city and largest settlement in the City of Bradford district, Yorkshire, England
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🏙 Towns & cities
Bolton
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
town in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Manchester?
16 productions are recorded as filmed in Manchester, 1 of them at places inside it, including Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Peaky Blinders (2013–2022) and Morbius (2022). 10 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Manchester?
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), covered by 79 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Manchester?
Manchester is in the United Kingdom, at 53.4667, -2.2333. The day trip guide for Manchester lists 191 filming locations within 100 km.
What other filming locations are near Manchester?
Odsal Stadium, Queen Street Mill, Manchester Town Hall, Northern Quarter and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Daniel Nisbet from Manchester, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0.
Planning a visit? Filming locations near Manchester — 191 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.