Classic Movies: The Story Of

Series 2

2024 · 6 episodes · 4h 29m in all

Episodes

1. 

   1. Brief Encounter

   8 Aug 2024 · 46 min

   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.

2. 

   2. Whisky Galore!

   15 Aug 2024 · 44 min

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

3. 

   3. The Producers

   22 Aug 2024 · 45 min

   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.

4. 

   4. I'm All Right, Jack

   29 Aug 2024 · 45 min

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

5. 

   5. Murder on the Orient Express

   5 Sept 2024 · 45 min

   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.

6. 

   6. The Deer Hunter

   12 Sept 2024 · 44 min

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