February 7, 2015 • 45m
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Some Like It Hot and Days of Wine and Roses star Jack Lemmon...Read more
February 14, 2015 • 45m
A look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters, with interviews from the archive an...Read more
February 21, 2015 • 45m
Sixty years after its original release, Talking Pictures examines On the Waterfront, one of the greatest films in US cinema histor...Read more
February 28, 2015 • 45m
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by award-winning actor Albert Finney, with interviews from the ...Read more
March 7, 2015 • 45m
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by award-winning actor Noel Coward, with interviews from the ar...Read more
March 14, 2015 • 45m
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by BAFTA-winning actor Kenneth More, with interviews from the a...Read more
April 4, 2015 • 45m
A retrospective look at the careers of some of the greatest and most successful directors in movie history, talking about their fa...Read more
April 25, 2015 • 45m
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Richard Harris, with interviews from the archive and classic...Read more
May 9, 2015 • 45m
To this day, Alfred Hitchcock is looked on as one of cinema's best and most influential directors. But how did the stars of his fi...Read more
July 11, 2015 • 45m
A look back at the life and career of one of the greats of British cinema - Sir Christopher Lee. In BBC interviews conducted over ...Read more
August 15, 2015 • 45m
A look back at the life of the actor Omar Sharif, who died in July 2015 at the age of 83. Using archive from his interviews with t...Read more
August 29, 2015 • 45m
In this episode, Talking Pictures tells the story of the Hollywood musical, using interviews with stars from the genre's golden ag...Read more
August 31, 2015 • 45m
A look back at the life of Oscar-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins and featuring interviews conducted with the BBC over the course of his career.
October 17, 2015 • 45m
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by actor and director John Huston, with interviews from the arc...Read more
October 24, 2015 • 45m
Sylvia Syms looks back on the legendary leading ladies of Hollywood - the glamorous and often powerful stars who helped define wha...Read more
October 31, 2015 • 45m
Sylvia Syms looks back on the great British comedy stars who over the years have had cinema audiences rolling in the aisles with l...Read more
November 21, 2015 • 45m
With classic interviews and rarely seen archive footage, Sylvia Syms examines the world of the big screen's smallest stars - the c...Read more
January 2, 2016 • 45m
Sylvia Syms looks at the handsome heroes, gorgeous heroines, pin-ups and bombshells who came to be known as cinema's greatest sex ...Read more
March 26, 2016 • 45m
A look back at the great British war films that boosted the nation's morale in the postwar years and launched the careers of some ...Read more
August 27, 2016 • 45m
A look at TV appearances made over the years by Bing Crosby, with interviews from the archive and classic clips capturing the mile...Read more
November 12, 2016 • 45m
A retrospective look at some of the best-loved and most popular black stars to have graced cinema screens over the past seven deca...Read more
January 1, 2017 • 45m
A look back at the life and work of Alan Rickman, one of Britain's best-loved actors, who died in January 2016. We hear from the m...Read more
January 21, 2017 • 45m
A look back at the life of the actress Debbie Reynolds - one of the best-loved stars of Hollywood's golden age, who died in Decemb...Read more
February 18, 2017 • 45m
A look back at the life and work of Sir John Hurt - one of Britain's acting greats, who died last month aged 77 after a career tha...Read more
April 29, 2017 • 45m
Sylvia Syms explores the BBC's archives and chooses a selection of rarely seen interviews that tell the story of the acting stars ...Read more
October 28, 2017 • 45m
Actor Warwick Davis - AKA Professor Flitwick and Griphook - explores the BBC archives and conjures up the story of the Harry Potte...Read more
December 16, 2017 • 45m
A look back at the life and career of one of Britain's best-loved actors, Sir Roger Moore, who died in 2017, just months before his 90th birthday.
December 17, 2017 • 45m
As double-Oscar winner Jane Fonda approaches her 80th birthday, a look back at the life of one of Hollywood's most successful and ...Read more
December 23, 2017 • 45m
Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archives to tell the story of one of Hollywood's greatest ever feuds - the rivalry between legen...Read more
December 30, 2017 • 45m
Rory Bremner explores the BBC archives for an affectionate look back at the career of Barry Norman, who hosted the BBC's Film Revi...Read more
March 30, 2018 • 45m
Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archive to discover what makes an epic. The programme looks at the history of epics, which featu...Read more
September 15, 2019 • 45m
Sylvia Syms looks back through the BBC’s archives to tell the story of what is perhaps cinema’s most enduring and most visual genre.
February 15, 2020 • 45m
Celia Imrie explores one of the best-loved movie genres - the romantic comedy. With classic interviews from cinematic couples like...Read more
April 4, 2020 • 45m
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
May 23, 2020 • 45m
A look back at legendary television appearances by Joan Collins.