All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 The Story of The Third Man

    • August 31, 2023
    • Sky Arts

    Movie critic Ian Nathan examines the qualities that made this 1949 film noir starring Orson Welles an enduring classic.

  • S01E02 The Story of The Ladykillers

    • September 7, 2023
    • Sky Arts

    Movie critic Ian Nathan examines the qualities that made this 1955 black comedy - starring Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers - a classic.

  • S01E03 The Story of Brighton Rock

    • September 14, 2023
    • Sky Arts

    Movie critic Ian Nathan examines the qualities that made this 1948 gangster film noir starring Richard Attenborough, an enduring British classic.

  • S01E04 The Story of The Graduate

    • September 21, 2023
    • Sky Arts

    Movie critic Ian Nathan examines the qualities that made this 1967 romantic comedy-drama starring Dustin Hoffman an all-time classic.

  • S01E05 The Story of Ran

    • September 28, 2023
    • Sky Arts

    Movie critic Ian Nathan examines the qualities that made this 98 epic action drama, directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, an enduring classic.

  • S01E06 The Story of Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    • October 5, 2023
    • Sky Arts

    Movie critic Ian Nathan examines what helped to make James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi-action sequel, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, so critically-acclaimed within the genre.

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Story of Brief Encounter

    • August 8, 2024
    • Sky Arts

    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.

  • S02E02 The Story of Whisky Galore!

    • August 15, 2024
    • Sky Arts

    Ian Nathan examines Alexander Mackendrick's 1949 Ealing comedy, in which Scottish islanders try to salvage 50,000 cases of whisky from a shipwreck.

  • S02E03 The Story of The Producers

    • August 22, 2024
    • Sky Arts

    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.

  • S02E04 The Story of I'm All Right Jack

    • August 29, 2024
    • Sky Arts

    Ian Nathan examines the Boulting brothers' 1959 comedy, a satire on British industrial life starring Ian Carmichael Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough and Margaret Rutherford.

  • S02E05 The Story of Murder on the Orient Express

    • September 5, 2024
    • Sky Arts

    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.

  • S02E06 The Story of The Deer Hunter

    • September 12, 2024
    • Sky Arts

    Ian Nathan examines Michael Cimino's 1978 Vietnam War drama, which starred Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale and Meryl Streep.