Movies

A look at the history of British B-movies.

Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray...

Documentary looking at the life and career of 1930s film star Leslie Howard. It features exclusive home movie footage, including footage from the...

Michael Grade traces the raucous history of the music hall in a revelatory journey that takes him from venues such as Wilton's Music Hall in London...

Dr Fern Riddell is a young historian and author who goes back to the archives to challenge more traditional historical views of Victorian society....

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved,...

Lifting the lid on the world of cinema censorship, this programme has unique access to the files of the British Board of Film Classification....

Retrospective documentary on the British horror anthology classic Dead of Night (1945).

Comedian and history buff Al Murray is joined by former director of MI5 Dame Stella Rimington, political comedian Matt Forde and film expert Matthew...

A newly-shot one-hour interview ‘Peter Davison In Conversation with Matthew Sweet

Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, the video, is a truly altoonative collection of cartoon classics. Hosted by Drew Barrymore, this ultimate...

A really lovely overview of Baker's now iconic run in this role.

Matthew Sweet explores his rules of 1940s and 50s American film noir thrillers.

In impeccable evening dress, Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet ponder the Bonds we've seen on screen since Dr. No in 1962. As the release of 24th...

Comedian and history buff Al Murray is joined by historian Dan Snow, writer Natalie Haynes and broadcaster and film expert Matthew Sweet for a fresh...

Matthew Sweet chats to companion Bonnie Langford

Documentary which looks back at Britain during the 18th century, a time of sexual excess and liberation, particularly in London - a city of 'giddy...

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...

A retrospective documentary on the tenure of Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor in the show Doctor Who.