This in-depth retrospective surveys the history and music of the Smiths via interviews with the band, expert commentary and insights from insiders, including producer Stephen Street. Performance footage and TV clips round out the program.

Thirteen Smiths' recordings, half of them in a club with a live audience. These alternate with five rock videos, two directed by Derek Jarman (Panic and Ask), two by Tim Broad (Girlfriend in a Coma and Stop Me...), and one by Paula Grief and Richard Levine (How Soon Is Now?). It concludes with Jarman's short film, "The Queen Is Dead," with a three-song soundtrack. The rock videos, particularly Jarman's, are filled with multiple and superimposed images, changing tints, and little narrative coherence; they get their pace from the music's rhythm. Androgyny, dancing children, belching smokestacks, graffiti, angry young men, a waif in a cap: collages of modern alienation.

Berton Pierce travelled around America and Europe to interview model makers. Each offers a personal account of their work, and thoughts on the changes in the industry. The documentary is an oral history of the amazing hand crafted workmanship that has produced many iconic film effects over the last 35 years. It focuses on a subject Berton cares deeply about; how computer technology is slowly taking away practical hand made craftsmanship.

Live at Rockpalast in Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany on the 4th of May, 1984. Setlist: 1) Hand In Glove 2) Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 3) Girl Afraid 4) This Charming Man 5) Pretty Girls Make Graves 6) Still Ill 7) Barbarism Begins at Home 8) This Night Has Opened My Eyes 9) Miserable Lie 10) You've Got Everything Now 11) Handsome Devil 12) What Difference Does It Make 13) These Things Take Time 14) This Charming Man II 15) Hand In Glove II 16) Barbarism Begins at Home II

Live at the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton, England on the 22nd of December, 1988. Setlist: 1) Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before [The Smiths] 2) Disappointed 3) Interesting Drug 4) Suedehead 5) The Last of the Famous International Playboys 6) Sister I'm a Poet 7) Death at One's Elbow [The Smiths] 8) Sweet and Tender Hooligan [The Smiths] *This first solo Morrissey show was unofficially meant as a farewell The Smiths concert. Admission was free to anyone wearing a The Smiths or Morrissey shirt.

Live at the Assembly Rooms in Derby, England on the 6th of December, 1983. Setlist: 1) Handsome Devil 2) Still Ill 3) This Charming Man 4) Pretty Girls Make Graves 5) Reel Around The Fountain 6) What Difference Does It Make? 7) Miserable Lie 8) This Night Has Opened My Eyes 9) Hand In Glove 10) You've Got Everything Now 11) Back to the Old House 12) These Things Take Time 13) Accept Yourself 14) This Charming Man II

This was the first hometown gig where the Smiths were headliners. As the band came on stage Morrissey greeted the fans "Hello you little charmers... we're the Smiths, how d'you do?" then launched into "You've Got Everything Now". Throughout the show, in one song out of two (faster numbers), Morrissey - who still looked ill at ease on stage at the time - had something to shake in his right hand while with the left one he held the microphone.

A journey through some of the finest moments of acoustic guitar performances from the BBC archives, from Jimmy Page's television debut in 1958 to Noel Gallagher and Biffy Clyro.

Kendal, an American tourist meets Shed, a fellow Morrissey and The Smiths obsessive whilst on a pilgrimage to Manchester. But is Shed really all he appears to be?

Looking at identity, power, happiness, self-destruction and acceptance, this is a thematic exploration of a group that opened the door for Britpop and led the way for a new era of guitar music.