What’s On
Today, Thursday, 25th February
Chariots of Fire (1981)
- Today at 3.50am on Sky Cinema Drama HD
In the 1924 Paris Olympics, a Jew and a Scotsman run for Britain.
Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)
- Today at 9am on Sky Arts HD
An impoverished lady invites an old school-friend to lodge with her, but soon regrets her decision.
Sir Francis Drake
Mission to Paris
- Today at 9.30am on Talking Pictures TV
The seafarer is sent to France to rescue the queen’s lover, who has been thrown in the Bastille to prevent him marrying her.
Fiddlers Three (1944)
Sailors struck by lightning on Salisbury Plain are transported back to ancient Rome.
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
- Today at 10.50am on Sony Movies Classic
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- Today at 11.50am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
Sir Thomas Moore opposes Henry VIII’s divorce, and events lead inexorably to his execution.
Two Way Stretch (1960)
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- Today at 12.15pm on Talking Pictures TV
Three convicts break jail to rob a maharajah.
Hell Is Sold Out (1951)
- Today at 1pm on London Live
A novelist returns from the supposed dead to find that a glamorous woman is posing as his widow and issuing best-sellers under his name.
Anastasia (1956)
- Today at 1.05pm on Film4 HD
In 1928 Paris, a group of exiled White Russians claim to have found the living daughter of the Tsar, presumed executed in 1918; but the claimant is a fake schooled by a general, with whom she falls in love.
Father Brown (1954)
[as The Detective]
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- Today at 1.15pm on Sony Movies Classic
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- Today at 2.15pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
A Catholic clergyman retrieves a priceless church cross from master thief Flambeau.
Murder Most Foul (1964)
- Today at 1.30pm on TCM Movies HD
- Today at 2.30pm on TCM Movies Plus 1
Refusing to return a guilty verdict, juror Miss Marple makes her own murder investigation backstage at a third-rate repertory company.
A Matter of Choice (1963)
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- Today at 2.40pm on London Live
Two young men-about-town become accidentally involved with the police and inadvertently expose a wife’s adultery.
School for Secrets (1946)
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- Today at 2.55pm on Talking Pictures TV
The boffins who invented radar find themselves in a little war action of their own.
The Admirable Crichton (1957)
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- Today at 3.05pm on Sony Movies Classic
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- Today at 4.05pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
Lord Loam and his family are shipwrecked on a desert island, where his manservant proves the undisputed leader.
Trouble in Store (1953)
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- Today at 4.15pm on London Live
A stock assistant cause chaos in a department store.
Date with a Dream (1948)
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- Today at 5.55pm on London Live
Four war-time performers known for their concert parties reunite and form a successful nightclub act.
Discovering Film
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- Tonight at 6pm on Sky Arts HD
A look at the career of Vivien Leigh, who scooped an Oscar as Scarlett O’Hara, famously married star Laurence Olivier and died of tuberculosis aged 53.
Value for Money (1955)
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- Tonight at 6.35pm on Talking Pictures TV
A Yorkshire businessman determines to broaden his outlook, and falls in love with a London showgirl.
Our Man in Havana (1959)
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- Tonight at 9pm on Sony Movies Classic
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- Tonight at 10pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
A British vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana allows himself to be recruited as a spy, and wishes he hadn’t.
The World at War (1973–74)
- Tonight at 10pm on Yesterday
The desert war, starting with Italy’s unsuccessful invasion of Egypt and the successive attacks and counter-attacks between Germany and Commonwealth forces, and the Afrika Korps’s eventual defeat at El Alamein.