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Featuring It’s A Wonderful Life, Studio Ghibli, the Apu trilogy and Charlie Chaplin

We hear from eye-witnesses to some classic moments in cinema history – from It’s a Wonderful Life to Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy via Studio Ghibli, the Sound of Music and Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator.

Plus, film critic Helen O’Hara tells us about the history of Christmas movies.

Photo: one of the final scenes from Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Carol Coombs, Jimmy Hawkins, Larry Simms and Karolyn Grimes, clockwise from top (photo by Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images)

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53 minutes

Last on

Tue 29 Dec 2020 00:06GMT

Broadcasts

  • Boxing Day 2020 14:06GMT
  • Tue 29 Dec 2020 00:06GMT

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