Film & TV

'Let My People Go!'

Hollywood offers a new version of the Exodus story, the West’s most enduring political narrative.

History on TV: The Great War

Taylor Downing looks at the making of the pioneering television series that launched BBC2 and marked the 50th anniversary of the First World War.

Hollywood Accused

Roger Hudson tells the story behind a gathering of glamorous movie stars in Washington DC in October 1947.

The Olympics on Film

London 2012 will be the biggest television spectacle ever. Taylor Downing reflects on the extraordinary links between the Olympics and the moving picture throughout their histories.

Coronation Street: A Jubilee Street Party

As Coronation Street celebrates half a century in the nation’s living rooms, Andrew Roberts looks at why an intensely parochial television series that has wilfully refused to acknowledge change is still going strong.