The real Baker Street robbery portrayed by The Bank Job took place in 1971.
The 2008 film The Bank Job dramatizes the 1971 robbery of Lloyds Bank in London's Baker Street. The thieves reached the bank's vault by renting a shop nearby and digging a tunnel beneath the street. They entered safety-deposit boxes and stole cash, jewelry, and other valuables.
The robbery became especially famous because the contents of several boxes were never fully made public. Reports and later accounts have connected the incident with claims involving compromising photographs and police corruption, although the film reshapes and fictionalizes much of that material.
Jason Statham stars as Terry Leather, a fictionalized central participant. The movie should therefore be treated as a crime thriller inspired by the event, not as a complete documentary reconstruction. The actual robbery occurred in September 1971.