Classic Movies: The Story Of

  • : 2023
  • : 18
  • : 4
  • Sky Arts
  • 20
  • Documentary

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2x1
Brief Encounter
Episode overview
08, 2024
Ian Nathan returns to cast his eye over more cinematic masterpieces, beginning with David Lean's 1945 romantic tragedy starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.
2x2
Whisky Galore!
Episode overview
15, 2024
Ian Nathan examines Alexander Mackendrick's 1949 Ealing comedy, in which Scottish islanders try to salvage 50,000 cases of whisky from a shipwreck.
2x3
The Producers
Episode overview
22, 2024
Ian Nathan examines Mel Brooks' classic 1968 comedy, which stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder as two men who set out to make a Broadway flop.
2x4
I'm All Right Jack
Episode overview
29, 2024
Ian Nathan examines the Boulting brothers' 1959 comedy, a satire on British industrial life starring Ian Carmichael Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough and Margaret Rutherford.
2x5
Murder on the Orient Express
Episode overview
05, 2024
Ian Nathan examines the 1974 adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery, featuring a stellar cast of train-bound suspects and Albert Finney as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
2x6
The Deer Hunter
Episode overview
12, 2024
Ian Nathan examines Michael Cimino's 1978 Vietnam War drama, which starred Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale and Meryl Streep.

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