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As one of Hollywood’s biggest studios celebrates its 100th anniversary, we recommend some of Columbia Pictures' finest films – one from each decade of its history.

Immense pressure was exerted on individuals under conditions of the Cold War, anti-communist hysteria to “name names.” The witch-hunters were implacable.

To mark 120 years since the great director’s birth, we revisit this 1950 interview, in which Ophüls candidly appraises his talents as a filmmaker – and actor.

Meet The Glamorous Victim, The Lady Sleuth. The Redeeming Angel and more as Cinema Junkie explores the diversity of women in film noir.

Meet the Glamorous Victim, the Lady Sleuth and more as Cinema Junkie concludes a discussion of the diverse women of film noir

The Reckless Moment depicts how overwhelming being a woman and a mother was in 1949, and within a film genre usually reserved for men.

From Strangers on a Train to The Fallen Sparrow, novels written by women were responsible for a number of incredible noir films.

Warming by the Devil’s Fire (an episode in the mini-series, The Blues, 2003), among other films. Professor Naremore authored a book about Burnett’s work, Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge (University of California Press, 2017). Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan in Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) The second part of the conversation concentrated on Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948), a film directed by German-born Max Ophuls while he was in exile in the US in the 1940s. N...

Beyond the Elements 7.50pm, PBS America Science writer David Pogue sets out to discover the molecules and chemical reactions responsible for making life and the universe possible in this wide-ranging three-part series. In tonight’s opening episode, Pogue explores the chemistry of life via soap and a shopping trip to find the constituent fats that make up the body. First, though, there’s a trip back to the school classroom for a recap on photosynthesis while Pogue asks how we can continue to...