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Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Top silent screen couple Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont face disaster when their latest movie is made into a talkie, as both the technology and Lina...

Alfred Hitchcock | Icons

Nicknamed the master of suspense, Hitchcock's career spanned six decades, and he was behind some of the most famous moments in cinema. Not only was ...

Marilyn Monroe | Icons

Marilyn Monroe used her image to propel her from starlet status to that of arguably the most iconic film star in the world. She pushed to expand the f...

Charlie Chaplin | Icons

Chaplin spent much of his childhood in poverty, before becoming the world's first international movie star. Chaplin took on the powers of the studio ...

Hitchcock: 1: It's Only Another Movie | Omnibus

During a career spanning 50 years of filmmaking, from the silent era into the age of television, Alfred Hitchcock became as f...

Hitchcock: 2: Sex, Murder and Mayhem | Omnibus

Second part of a two-part documentary profile examining the personality and works of film director Alfred Hitchcock. This prog...

Hitchcock's Shower Scene: 78/52

Director Alexandre O Philippe's gripping documentary takes an unprecedented look at Alfred Hitchcock's infamous and iconic shower scene and i...

Hollywood | Age of the Image

James Fox explores the major development of film that occurred in Hollywood, LA and the filmic techniques that were born.

King Kong (1933)

Hollywood's most famous monster movie in which Kong, the giant gorilla, is taken from his prehistoric island home to be exhibited in the music halls of Manh...

North by Northwest (1959)

When advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for the mysterious Mr Kaplan by a ruthless espionage ring, he soon faces deadly peril, frame...

Pillow Talk (1959)

Interior decorator Jan Morrow shares her phone line with philandering songwriter Brad Allen, a man she despises. Meeting a handsome Texan, she is favourab...

The Last Moguls | Omnibus

Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus arrived in Hollywood seven years ago, almost penniless. Together, they now run Cannon, the world's largest independe...

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

After the latest raid by bandits, the villagers in a small settlement in Mexico band together to hire a group of disparate gunfighters to protec...

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Dr and Mrs McKenna's holiday in North Africa is interrupted when a passing acquaintance dies and they learn their son has been kidnapped. Di...

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker achieve growing notoriety as they carry out a series of robberies with their gang in 1930s America.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Musicians Joe and Jerry accidentally witness the St Valentine's Day massacre. The boys decide to make a getaway by joining a jazz band heading for Fl...

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Classic western adventure, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as legendary outlaws Butch and Kid.

Casablanca (1942)

Rick's Cafe is a centre for criminals, refugees, resistance fighters and Nazis. Its cynical owner takes risks for no-one - until the arrival of Ilsa.

Citizen Kane (1941)

A landmark in the history of cinema, telling the story of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane in a series of flashbacks. Starring Orson Welles.

Hollywood and the Holocaust | Storyville

Director Danny Anker investigates the American film industry's complex and contradictory responses to the horrors of Nazi Germany in...