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*Winners of Best TV & Film Podcast at the Independent Podcast Awards 2025 Many movies claim to be 'based on a true story', but how much truth actually makes it onto the silver screen? Whilst one of us queries the less believable moments from the film, the other takes a deep dive into the fact behind the fiction to educate us and answer… is that really how it went down? See Elliot and Lewis LIVE and IN-PERSON alongside a screening of The Social Reckoning at Cineworld in London on Saturday 17th October at 14:30 - Grab your tickets here ! Subscribe now to hear more: patreon.com/tnhiwdpodcast Produced by <a href="www.2020recordings.co.uk" rel="noo
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Signup to Generate a Pitch*Winners of Best TV & Film Podcast at the Independent Podcast Awards 2025 Many movies claim to be 'based on a true story', but how much truth actually makes it onto the silver screen?
That's Not How It Went Down is hosted by Lewis Howard & Elliot Fitzpatrick. The show has published 110 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "'The Untouchables' (1987)" (27 October 2026, 62 minutes), "SPECIAL: 'The Social Reckoning' (2026) Live at Cineworld" (20 October 2026, 65 minutes), and "'Donnie Brasco' (1997)" (13 October 2026, 62 minutes).
That's Not How It Went Down publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 59 minutes across 110 episodes.
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Lewis Howard & Elliot Fitzpatrick hosts That's Not How It Went Down, a tv podcast with 110 episodes published.
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Episode #106
In many ways, Al Capone feels like the role De Niro was born to play, and one that in today's cinema world, you might expect to earn some acting accolades. But for some reason, it was Connery's...
Our first ever live episode in front of a cinema audience in partnership with Cineworld and Sony pictures gives us the exciting and challenging prospect of sifting through The Facebook Files to find out what changes...
Episode #105
"Forget about it!"... or don't, as this week we're heading back to that fruitful pasture for gangster movies - New York's Five Families, AKA the mafia. With syndicated crime seemingly taking over the Big Apple by the...
Episode #104
Returning to the fertile fields of WWII cinema, we explore one of the more unique storylines of this era. The most common form of artistic translation into film today is probably from the good old fashioned book. But...
Episode #103
The collection of animated movies that are "based on a true story" is perhaps unsurprisingly thin. Having already tackled several of these on our investigative journey through film so far a common theme has occurred...
Episode #102
Having gotten up off the canvas over the strange motives behind A24's most recent ring-set movie, The Smashing Machine, we've mustered the stamina to dive head first into another world of yellow-tinted bleakness, this...
Episode #101
Bonjour et bienvenue dans That's Not How It Went Down. We will be your maître d's and for your aperitif today we will perusing the 2009 comedy biopic "Julie & Julia". Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with...
Episode #100
Some actors were born to play certain roles, but perhaps it's a bit of a shame if that role happens to be one of the worst dictators in human history. At least in Forest Whitaker's case, the performance bagged him some...
Episode #99
On your marks, get set... TRUTH! In this episode we're passing the baton to perhaps the most iconic British sports film of all. Turning the lives and times of two of Britain's most fabled Olympians into an award-winning...
Episode #98
"YES! Say it a million times. Then say it a million more. And the word you will have said two million times is...?" Saying 'yes' isn't always as easy as it might seem. But for a man who has previously played someone...
Episode #97
After minor roles in Black Hawk Down, Layer Cake and RocknRolla, Tom Hardy made his biggest entrance to audiences when he beefed up for the role of Britain's most violent inmate. It's now hard to imagine anyone else in...
Episode #94
This week we're dribbling at the prospect of another sports movie slam dunk. Basketball may be a relatively unknown sport where we come from, but across the pond its presence is undeniable with 170 million fans tuning...
Episode #93
The history of space exploration is often dominated by men. Movies like "Apollo 13" and "First Man" - while captivating - seem to only show the perseverance of the male members of NASA, crucially omitting the thousands...
Episode #92
When it comes to the miners' strike of 1984/85, there isn't much positivity to be found. Families in communities solely reliant upon the income generated from the coal-mining industry were effectively starved into...
Episode #90
We've said before that the story of how a legacy was created doesn't necessarily guarantee compelling viewing. But in this dramatised making of, we are partially spared the knowing winks and nods to the audience when...
Episode #86
<p>The temptation to parody the speech we all know from this film as a blurb was tempting but would have been too obvious. What perhaps isn't as obvious, is quite how may historical figures made it into this absolute...
Episode #85
<p>After being recommended this film from many quarters, the time felt right to tackle one of the darkest subject matters when it comes to true stories - serial killings. But this being one of the first films of the...
Episode #84
<p>Thank you ladies and gentlemen, players are ready... to analyse 2017's sport/comedy/drama/docu movie of the now infamous "Battle of the Sexes". Although today finds tennis as one of the world's only major sports...
Episode #83
<p>We return to the ocean this week and tackle our first true disaster movie. The oil spill from this tragedy still causes damage to this day, and even though we can probably all draw a basic picture of what an oil rig...
Episode #82
<p>The heat is on this week as we go undercover in LA. If you combine the talents of two of Hollywood's most legendary actors with an up and coming director then… WHADDYA GOT?! Potentially one of the greatest crime...
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