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- Film critic and presenter Mark Kermode explores the fascination and praise audiences, fans and critics have behind the classic The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and how its importance grew higher over the years despite being an overlooked film when it was released and not getting any Oscars victories when it was nominated as one of the Best Pictures of the Year.
- Mark Kermode brings a tribute to the successful Alien series, featuring interviews with the cast members and directors, including Sigourney Weaver and Ridley Scott.
- The presenter recalls his boyhood heroes from the Cricklewood film studios,assisted by Tim Dempsey,founder of the Cricklewood Appreciation Society. The studio was established by failed magician Arthur Sims,creator of silent comedy legend Harold the Hobo - alias the Little Drunk - before succumbing to a fatal gag involving a steam roller. In the 1930s chirpy Northern lass Florrie Fontaine became the country's highest paid home grown performer,starring in 'Clog Capers of 1932' and 'Florrie Drives a Lorry',as well as featuring in her own comic strip. In World War II she was the forces' sweetheart,the German forces,leading to a decline in popularity and exile to Benidorm to run a bier-keller.Post war Acton Films'series of horror movies with former Shakespearean lead Lionel Crisp revived studio fortunes whilst the 60s saw perky Cockney lass Jenny Driscoll decorate the cheeky 'Thumbs Up' series of farces (Thumbs Up,Marie Antoinette,Thumbs Up,Uranus) until scandal ended her career.Final interviewee Terry Gilliam unfortunately destroyed the studio,accidentally flooding it whilst making his little-seen flop 'Professor Hypochondria's Magical Odyssey' and the building was knocked down to make way for a DIY superstore. However thanks to Tim Dempsey,to lovingly preserved archive footage and television repeats we can be sure that the Cricklewood Greats will always be remembered.
- The cast and main players in the crew come together to discuss the making of cult British horror film The Wicker Man.
- Female artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers are settled in Paris between the wars.
- British television show with a comedy panel in the style of a pub quiz.
- About the epic film "Blade Runner," giving insights into its history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers, and nearly all of the cast. There are also interviews with production staff, giving details into the creative process and turmoil during pre-production.
- An original documentary on the making of the first James Bond film.
- A sardonic look at the dark secrets of the British Film Industry of the 1920s and 30s, where scandal and sordid behaviour was almost as rife as in Hollywood.
- Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
- The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.
- A documentary tribute to River Phoenix stressing the impact that River Phoenix had on gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals.
- British television show with a comedy panel in the style of a pub quiz.
- Actor, writer and life-long horror film aficionado Mark Gatiss follows his 'A History of Horror' with this exploration of European horror cinema. Including interviews with directors Dario Argento and Guillermo del Toro amongst others.
- A tribute to Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer and one of the country's most influential pioneers of television drama.
- British television show with a comedy panel in the style of a pub quiz.
- The making of Roger Moore's third film as James Bond, often regarded as his best, and the first time Albert R. Broccoli served as sole producer.
- A documentary that details the making of the 6th official James Bond film, 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Features include interviews with the cast and crew, including the blockbuster hit film's director Peter Hunt and star George Lazenby.
- A look at the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam in the years after Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
- A countdown of the UK's greatest stars of the small screen.
- Six-part series showing the less savory side of Tinseltown.
- Tommy Vance and Mike Read have a nostalgic countdown of what was big in 1982.
- A profile of the legendary writer and entertainer.
- John Ford: Part One.
- 201059m8.3 (99)TV EpisodeThe early sound era of American horror films such as the Universal Horror franchise where Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff became its central players.
- 201059m8.1 (95)TV EpisodeA look at the heyday of British horror cinema such as the lurid color monster films of Hammer Films.
- A look at the rise of modern North American horror in the late 1960s and 1970s.
- 2002–201759m7.5 (29)TV EpisodeA look at the files of the BBFC, which examines the relationship between the censor and the filmmakers.
- Centers on the British classic The Sweeney that ran four seasons and spawned two theatrical films utilizing the same cast during the show's production in the 1970's.
- How producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas accidentally stumbled on a hit formula.
- 20137.6 (14)TV EpisodeThis first episode looks at the classic orchestral film scores. In the 1930s, Viennese composers produced stirring, romantic scores for films such as King Kong and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Later, American composers brought a darker sounds to Citizen Kane, Psycho and Taxi Driver.
- 20138.1 (13)TV EpisodeIn the 1960s, composers turned from classical music to jazz, and pop and rock, to introduce fresh energy to their film scores. In many cases, music was written specially, but then directors started selecting existing pop songs, dispensing altogether with a composer of original music.
- 20137.6 (11)TV EpisodeFilm composers began using electronic instruments in their scores - for example, Vangelis's uplifting score for "Chariots of Fire", Miklós Rózsa's pioneering use of the theremin in Hitchcock's "Spellbound", Bernard Hermann's use of the trautonium to produce all the terrifying bird sounds in Hitchcock's "The Birds", and Walter/Wendy Carlos's score using Moog synthesizer for "A Clockwork Orange".
- Prof Richard Clay explores how Utopian visions start as blueprints for a fairer world and asks if they can lead to real change. He argues that such visions have been a way of criticising the present.
- Nabil Shaban argues that disabled people are misrepresented by Hollywood, the bad guy always being portrayed with a limp and scars and heroes are physically perfect. If there is a disabled part on offer it is played by an able-bodied actor.