This three-part series takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy and worked at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts.

Andy Warhol founded his Silver Factory in 1964 in an abandoned hat factory on East 47th Street in New York. The Factory saw four thrilling years until Andy moved the factory to Union Square.

This series contains original interviews, screen tests and films, and rare film clips chronicling Factory life. Andy Warhol’s Factory People discovers the influence of the beats on sixties culture, savours the irony of the rising tide of independent film making, and plays to the origins of the alternative down-town music scene, all of which swirled around and influenced Andy over his most productive period of making art, making films, and making friends.

Episode 1 – Welcome to the Silver Factory
In 1964, Warhol opens the Silver Factory in an abandoned hat factory in New York.

Episode 2 – Speeding into the Future
From 1965 to 1966, guests at the factory include Bob Dylan, Edie Sedgwick, the Velvet Underground and Nico.

Episode 3 – Factory Finale... Your 15 minutes are up!
From 1965 to 1966, guests at the factory include Bob Dylan, Edie Sedgwick, the Velvet Underground and Nico.