I.D. (1995 film)

I.D.
Directed by	Philip Davis
Screenplay by	Vincent O'Connell
Story by	James Bannon
Produced by	Sally Hibbin
Starring	Reece Dinsdale Warren Clarke Sean Pertwee Richard Graham Perry Fenwick Philip Glenister Saskia Reeves Claire Skinner Lee Ross
Cinematography	Thomas Mauch
Edited by	Inge Behrens
Music by	Will Gregory
Production companies	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment BBC Films Parallax Pictures Metropolis Filmproduktion Hamburg Film Fund European Co-Production Fund
Distributed by	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Release date	15 May 1995 (1995-05-15)
Running time	107 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom Germany
Language	English

I.D. is a 1995 film made by BBC Films about football hooliganism, directed by Philip Davis, written by Vincent O'Connell, and starring Reece Dinsdale, Sean Pertwee and Warren Clarke. It is set in 1988 in the Shadwell area of London, England and is a story about a group of Metropolitan Police officers who are sent undercover to infiltrate a gang of dangerous football hooligans.

Although set in London, a lot of the film was filmed in South Yorkshire, in particular Rotherham and Sheffield. Millmoor stadium in Rotherham served as Shadwell Town's fictional home "The Kennel". The tagline is "When you go undercover, remember one thing... Who you are." The true events that inspired the movie are chronicled in the 2013 book Running with the Firm written by former undercover detective James Bannon. The film has a cult following.^[1] In 2016, twenty one years after the original the film was released, it received a sequel named ID2: Shadwell Army.