Lydny Seville
Director
Classic Movies: The Story Of (2023)
Season 2
Movie critic Ian Nathan goes in search of the cinematically sublime and explores the ingredients that went into making a classic. With each episode devoted to a single film, their story will be told with detail, affection, looking for the truth behind the myth, and all the trials and triumphs that went into forging the classic.
Released Aug. 31, 2023
Episode 44 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.filmmaking, tmdb.film-critic, imdb.movie-critic, imdb.classic-movies, imdb.behind-the-scenes, tmdb.behind-the-scenes, imdb.filmmaking
Production Companies: 3DD Productions
Network: Sky Arts
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Classic Movies: Brief Encounter
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.
Aug. 8, 2024, midnight
S2E2 - Classic Movies: Whisky Galore!
Ian Nathan examines Alexander Mackendrick's 1949 Ealing comedy, in which Scottish islanders try to salvage 50,000 cases of whisky from a shipwreck.
Aug. 15, 2024, midnight
S2E3 - Classic Movies: The Producers
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.
Aug. 22, 2024, midnight
S2E4 - I'm All Right, Jack
Ian Nathan examines the Boulting brothers' 1959 comedy, a satire on British industrial life starring Ian Carmichael Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough and Margaret Rutherford.
Aug. 29, 2024, midnight
S2E5 - Murder on the Orient Express
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.
Sept. 5, 2024, midnight
S2E6 - The Deer Hunter
Ian Nathan examines Michael Cimino's 1978 Vietnam War drama, which starred Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale and Meryl Streep.
Sept. 12, 2024, midnight
Network: Sky Arts
Episode Runtime: 44 min.
Season Runtime: 1057 min.
Released: Aug. 31, 2023
Last Air Date: Nov. 20, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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