Movies 2019

Earthquakes, explosions, eruptions - since the earliest days of cinema, film-makers have understood that real spectacle lies not in building things up, but in bringing them crashing down. Mark Kermode grew up in the 1970s, the heyday of the all-star Hollywood disaster movie, and he has always been fascinated by the genre, which continues to thrive today. Mark shows how disaster movies use stunts and sound, editing and special effects to bring us jaw-dropping visions of destruction.

Famous faces, from Aled Jones –who reveals that he hadn’t even seen the famous Snowman until only ten years ago – to Gremlins star Zach Galligan and child star of Miracle on 34th Street Mara Wilson, talk about their experiences making some of the most popular festive films. Ollie Lock, Stacey Solomon, Joe Swash and Eamonn Holmes also appear.

A young woman who met her childhood sweetheart during her family's annual Christmas visit to Hawaii but circumstances conspire to keep them apart.

When Mia, a talented Boston department store window designer, travels to her family's Connecticut town to help her sister design the decor for its annual Snowflake Festival Christmas Eve dance

Light-hearted look at Meghan Markle and her Prince Charming.

Light-hearted look at Meghan Markle's journey from the streets of LA to her very own Prince Charming. Royal experts explore landmark moments in Meghan's life.

A candid look at what life was really like for those living in, and under Hitler's Swastika - at home - and abroad, a record not only of what they saw, but of what they knew.

Sky Cinema takes a special look at the true-life thriller, starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer and Jason Isaacs.

The idea that there is a possibility of many worlds or multi universal theory is very new even though you may have learned about it in movies and comic books. Explore how this thinking was developed in the world of quantum mechanics and philosophy.

Perched high above the Qadisha valley in northern Lebanon, not far from the Syrian border, is the centuries-old Hamatoura monastery. In an intimate and revealing film Our World follows eighteen Greek Orthodox Christian monks, who make up the community here, as they go about their traditional and almost silent way of life: communal prayer, making cheese, candles, incense and farming. The monks reveal the personal journeys which brought them to the monastery.