To celebrate Liverpool's status as the European Capital Of Culture, Terence Davies looks at the history and evolution of the city of his birth. He uses home movies and newsreel footage to explore the tough working class community where he grew up.

Film Trivia

• When asked what he wanted to achieve by this film, Terence Davies sauid 'Though I'm a very pessimistic person, I believe it's worth striving to be a better person. Better, not better off, that's just vanity. I want to say that it's worth going on'.
• Director Terence Davies has claimed that when he visited Liverpool again after many years of being absent, he felt like an alien because the city he knew and loved had changed so much.
• Terence Davies is extremely critical of Liverpool's most famous export, The Beatles, in the documentary. He mocks their singing and claims that lyrics like 'money can't buy me love' are hardly insightful.

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