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- Some of Hollywood legend Bette Davis' television appearances and interviews are looked back upon. She talks of her life and career.
- A look back at legendary television appearances by Joan Collins.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by the Oscar-winning actor David Niven, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar-winning actor Alec Guinness, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by iconic Hollywood director Alfred Hitchcock, reflecting on the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- Sylvia Syms looks back on the life of Laurence Olivier, perhaps Britain's greatest actor, using rare material from the BBC archives to tell the story of his extraordinarily distinguished career.
- As Kenneth Branagh prepares to unveil the latest version of Death on the Nile, Celia Imrie looks at how Agatha Christie's murder mysteries have been treated by film-makers over the years.
- 2013–7.6 (7)TV EpisodeA retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by legendary Hollywood double act Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, capturing the milestones and highlights of their lives and careers.
- A look at the life of acting legend Michael Caine, using rarely seen television interviews and classic archive clips to tell the story of one Britain's most successful actors.
- A look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood legend Dirk Bogarde, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archive to discover what makes an epic, looking at the history of epics from the Ten Commandments and Ben Hur through to Titanic and Gladiator.
- Rarely seen footage from the BBC archives of various interviews with one of Britain's best-loved actresses, Maggie Smith. She talks of her life and career.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by award-winning actor and playwright Noel Coward, with interviews from the archive and classic clips capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by the legendary Hollywood actor and dancer Gene Kelly, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- Rory Bremner explores the BBC archives for an affectionate look back at the career of Barry Norman, who hosted the BBC's Film Review show for 26 years.
- As double-Oscar winner Jane Fonda approaches her 80th birthday, a look back at the life of one of Hollywood's most successful and controversial actresses.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood legend John Wayne, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood icon Tony Curtis, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A look at the life of Sean Connery, using rarely seen television interviews and classic archive clips to tell the story of his life and career.
- 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 films find working with the great man?
- A look back at the life of Oscar-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, featuring interviews conducted with the BBC over the course of his career.
- Moments from interviews conducted on a range of BBC shows over the years help to tell the story of Dustin Hoffman, one of Hollywood's biggest stars, and his films.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by award-winning actor Albert Finney, with interviews from the archive and classic clips capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A look back at the career of British actress Deborah Kerr, with vintage television interviews and classic archive clips telling how she left Britain in the 1940s and became one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by the legendary Hollywood actor and director Orson Welles, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- Sylvia Syms looks at the handsome heroes, gorgeous heroines, pin-ups and bombshells who came to be known as cinema's greatest sex symbols, hearing from the stars themselves.
- A look back at the career of one of the greats of British cinema: Christopher Lee. In BBC interviews from over six decades, he discusses his screen villains and talks about his major roles, from Count Dracula to Count Dooku.
- Sylvia Syms looks back on the great British comedy stars who over the years have had cinema audiences rolling in the aisles with laughter.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by the Oscar-winning actor Sir John Mills, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- 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.
- Celia Imrie explores one of the best-loved movie genres - the romantic comedy. With classic interviews from cinematic couples like Doris Day and Rock Hudson and Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.
- A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
- Celia Imrie unwraps a selection of the very best Christmas movies ever made and looks at why films are such an important part of the festive ritual.
- Celia Imrie takes a look at some of the leading ladies who've proved time and again, year after year, that they are amongst the very best of British talent.
- Celia Imrie takes us on a journey through the BBC's archives for an in-depth look at the continuing power and importance of war films.
- Celia Imrie celebrates the cinema's marvellous musicals, venturing back through the archives to look at film's most joyous and arguably enduring genre.
- Join Celia Imrie as we go bobbing along through the beautiful, briny BBC archives for a look at the enduring movie classics that have earned the status of family favourites.
- A celebration of Meryl Streep, perhaps the greatest actress of modern times, using decades' worth of interviews and appearances on the BBC to tell the story of her life and incredible career.
- A look back at some of cinema's best-loved partnerships, from Fred and Ginger, Doris Day and Rock Hudson, to Newman and Redford, and even Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.
- Celia Imrie tells the story of Glenda Jackson, one of Britain's greatest-ever acting talents, who famously turned her back on her hugely successful screen career to pursue a life in politics.
- A look at the life of Joan Fontaine, one of Britain's best-loved actresses, using rarely seen archive footage of her BBC appearances to tell the story of her Oscar-winning career.
- A look at the life and work of the late Richard Attenborough, with vintage interviews and classic archive clips illustrating a career that has made him one of British cinema's most popular and successful figures.
- The career of Robert Redford, one of the big screen's greatest heartthrobs, is examined in this exploration of the BBC archives, with rarely seen interviews showing that he was always much more than just a pin-up.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Bafta-winning actor Kenneth More, with interviews from the archive and classic clips capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters, with interviews from the archive and classic clips capturing the milestones and highlights of her life and career.
- A look back at the life of actress Debbie Reynolds. In a selection of rare interviews, Debbie discusses her favourite film roles and her relationship with daughter Carrie Fisher.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar-winning actor James Stewart, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall, following the changes and highlights of her life and career.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood icon Ingrid Bergman, capturing the milestones and highlights of her life and career.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood icon Gregory Peck, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar-nominated Hollywood star James Mason, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar winning Hollywood actor Charlton Heston, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- 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.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Some Like It Hot and Days of Wine and Roses star Jack Lemmon, with interviews from the archive and classic clips capturing the highlights of his life and career.
- An examination of On the Waterfront, revealing how behind its success lies a story of betrayal and resentment, born from America's anti-communist fervour of the 1950s.
- A retrospective look at the careers of some of the greatest and most successful directors in movie history, talking about their favourite films and the stars they worked with.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Richard Harris, with interviews from the archive and classic clips capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A look back at the life of the actor Omar Sharif, who died in July 2015 at the age of 83. Featuring archive interviews with the BBC and contributions from director David Lean.
- The story of the Hollywood musical, featuring interviews with stars from the genre's golden age, as well as some of the directors and songwriters who helped create them.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by actor and director John Huston, with interviews from the archive and classic clips capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- Sylvia Syms looks back on the legendary leading ladies of Hollywood - the glamorous and often powerful stars who helped define what it was to be a woman in cinema's golden age.
- With classic interviews and rarely seen archive footage, Sylvia Syms examines the world of the big screen's smallest stars - the child actors.
- 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 of our best-loved actors and directors.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by American actor Bing Crosby, with interviews from the archive and classic clips capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A retrospective look at some of the best-loved and most popular black stars to have graced cinema screens over the past seven decades.
- A look back at the life and work of Alan Rickman, one of Britain's best-loved actors, who died in January 2016.
- 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 that spanned six decades and took in over 100 films.
- Sylvia Syms explores the BBC's archives and chooses a selection of rarely seen interviews that tell the story of the acting stars who made 60s Britain swing.
- Warwick Davis explores the BBC archives and conjures up the story of the Harry Potter films - a tale that starts with the casting of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.
- Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archives to tell the story of one of Hollywood's greatest ever feuds - the rivalry between legendary actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar-nominated Hollywood icon Richard Burton, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by one of Hollywood's most outspoken stars, Shirley Maclaine, with interviews and clips capturing the milestones and highlights of her Oscar-winning career.
- An examination of the life and career of one of cinema's most glamorous stars, Sophia Loren, with rarely seen archive material telling the story of her hugely successful career.
- An examination of the life of actor Paul Newman, using rarely seen interviews from the BBC archives to tell the story of a career that made him one of Hollywood's greatest superstars.
- The life and career of one of Hollywood's original bad boys, Robert Mitchum, is examined using archive footage of his appearances on the BBC that illustrate why he was a favourite of film fans, and an interviewer's nightmare.
- A look at the life of the Lawrence of Arabia star and legendary hellraiser Peter O'Toole, with rarely seen archive footage of his appearances on the BBC, exploring the story of his colourful career.
- A compilation of rarely seen interviews and archive footage tells the story of movie-master David Lean, whose drive and genius made him one of Britain's greatest-ever film directors.
- Sylvia Syms presents rarely seen footage from the BBC archives that explores the life and career of one of Britain's best-loved actors, Judi Dench.
- A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Mary Poppins and Sound of Music star Julie Andrews, with interviews from the archive and classic clips capturing the milestones and highlights of her life and career.