
This documentary produced by Rare Day and directed by award-winning filmmaker Penny Woolcock charts the attempts by two warring gangs in inner city Birmingham, the Burger Bar Boys (B21) and the Johnson Crew (B6), to bring peace to their neighbourhoods.... (Full plot summary below)
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This documentary produced by Rare Day and directed by award-winning filmmaker Penny Woolcock charts the attempts by two warring gangs in inner city Birmingham, the Burger Bar Boys (B21) and the Johnson Crew (B6), to bring peace to their neighbourhoods.
Leave your thoughts about One Mile Away.
| Observer (UK)Philip FrenchThe picture covers familiar ground and tends to ramble somewhat repetitively. |
| GuardianHenry BarnesThe doc's short on context, and too forgiving of its poster boys, but as a study of their commitment to bettering themselves and the community, it's inspiring. |
| Birmingham PostGraham YoungIf One Mile Away can foster a sense of whole-city community within certain factions, a 7 Up style sequel would be a good thing for everyone to aim for. |
| The ListTom DawsonThe strength of One Mile Away is that it gives the viewer a palpable sense of what it's like to be caught up in these 'postcode' wars ... |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinThis is a vital and important film - just not to watch. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsWoolcock should have realised that somewhere amid all her shapeless "docu" there was a "drama" - this one, a human one - to be found and properly focused. |