Inspired Film and Video produces heritage video content for museums, archives, historic sites, heritage trusts and National Lottery Heritage Fund-funded projects across the UK. Based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, we produce documentaries, oral history interviews, virtual tours and restoration films for organisations including Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Wedgwood Museum and the Staffordshire Regiment Museum. We understand the sensitivities of working with historic sites, archive material and community memory, and the reporting requirements that come with lottery and public funding.
We have worked alongside a number of organisations to celebrate heritage and history, including Stoke-on-Trent City Council,
World of Wedgwood, The Staffordshire Regiment Museum, the National Lottery Heritage Fund,
Leicester Museums, Stoke City Football Club, and many more.
Produced in partnership with the World of Wedgwood Museum and the Staffordshire Regiment Museum to commemorate the centenary of the Somme and the 168 workers from the Wedgwood pottery factory who left their jobs in the Potteries to fight alongside Major Wedgwood.
Many heritage projects are delivered against National Lottery Heritage Fund or other public funding, which comes with its own reporting, interpretation and public engagement requirements alongside the creative brief. We've worked directly with the National Lottery Heritage Fund and understand how funded projects need to demonstrate public benefit and reach as part of grant reporting; content that works for funders as well as visitors and communities. This matters to procurement teams and funding bodies researching a supplier: it's the difference between a production company that can make a beautiful film, and one that understands what a funded heritage project actually needs to deliver against.
Some of the most important heritage stories can't be told from the UK alone. We have conducted oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors in the Czech Republic, and filmed on location in France for several World War One documentary productions.
This kind of work brings its own demands working with elderly and often vulnerable contributors on deeply sensitive subject matter, coordinating filming across international locations, and understanding the historical and cultural context well enough to ask the right questions and film with appropriate care.
It's an extension of the same approach we bring to UK heritage projects, applied to subject matter that carries real weight.
If your heritage project involves contributors, archives or locations outside the UK, this is something we have direct experience delivering.
A documentary that explores the profound wartime bond between Stoke-on-Trent and the razed Czech village of Lidice, sparked by local doctor and MP Barnett Stross launching the "Lidice Shall Live" campaign. Screened nationally and internationally.
A documentary film detailing the history and wartime experiences of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, affectionately nicknamed "The Tigers" during the 1916 Battle of the Somme in World War I
A heritage documentary celebrating the vital, historical role of women in the North Staffordshire pottery industry
Heritage video projects vary widely in scope. As a general guide, a short oral history film typically starts from £2,000, while full documentary productions or multi-output museum interpretation projects typically range up to £20,000+. Lottery-funded project budgets are well understood, and we can work within National Lottery Heritage Fund reporting and deliverable requirements.
We provide clear, fixed-fee proposals scoped to your brief and funding structure. For projects filmed outside the UK, as with our Czech Republic and France productions, travel, logistics and additional planning are costed transparently as part of the proposal.
Museums, archives, heritage trusts, local authorities and organisations delivering National Lottery Heritage Fund or other funded heritage projects. We've worked with Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Wedgwood Museum, the Staffordshire Regiment Museum and Leicester Museums, among others.
Yes. We've produced content for National Lottery Heritage Fund-funded projects and understand the public engagement and reporting requirements that come with lottery funding, alongside the creative brief itself.
We plan and conduct filmed interviews that capture personal memories and community narratives, handling contributors, often older or vulnerable participants, with care and working sensitively around what they're comfortable sharing on camera.
Yes. We produce content designed for in-gallery display and museum interpretation, as well as films built for public and online audiences.
Yes. Subtitling, captioning and accessible formats can be built into any heritage production as standard, supporting museums' and heritage sites' accessibility obligations.
We work closely with site owners and heritage organisations to understand access restrictions, conservation considerations and any sensitivities around historical content before filming begins.
Heritage projects typically range from around £2,000 for a short oral history film to £20,000+ for a full documentary or multi-output museum interpretation project. We provide clear, fixed-fee proposals scoped to your brief and funding structure.
Yes. While based in Stoke-on-Trent, we deliver heritage video production for organisations across the UK, including our work with Leicester Museums.
Yes. We have conducted oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors in the Czech Republic and filmed on location in France for several World War One documentary productions. International heritage filming brings additional planning and cost considerations, which we set out transparently at the proposal stage.
Partner with Inspired Film and Video to document and celebrate the heritage that shapes your organisation or community. Whether you're documenting a historic site, building an immersive virtual tour, or capturing oral histories, we're here to help you tell that story with authenticity and craft.
Contact us today to discuss your heritage project.
