Sky Arts HD Thursday

A production of Puccini's opera

Tutorials for budding artists, with this edition offering tips on painting on black. Tai-Shan Schierenberg shares ideas on painting portraits

A young man discovers a window in a peaceful hunting lodge leads to a strange world

A woman's marriage is blown apart when she meets a dashing young writer. Bizarre drama, written by Ruth Rendell

An elderly unemployed actor Colin Bragner uses an even older ploy to land a part in a play, tugging at his guest's heartstrings. With Herbert Marshall and Julie Adams

Alcoholic plantation owner Harry Pope awakens to find a deadly snake in his bed, sleeping under the blanket right on his chest. With Wendell Corey and James Donald

A look at the life and career of the English actor, which includes an Academy Award-winning performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour

A look at the Dutch violinist's finest moments as he entertains audiences around the world with his fun, contemporary take on classical music

A fortune teller sees her own destiny in the cards of a man who has just arrived in town

A couple encounter a shady mechanic while making a trip across the desert

The actress welcomes long-time friend and sometime collaborator Kenneth Branagh to her country home, where they chat about their lives and careers

Don McLean discusses the intricacies of his 1971 release American Pie, the sometimes fraught recording process, and the album's legacy. Contributors include Jake Bugg

The life and career of the American actor, who rose to fame in TV series Moonlighting and starred in the Die Hard franchise as well as Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable

The six heat-winners arrive for the semi-final where celebrity sitter Imelda Staunton awaits, but the pressure is on as only three artists will be chosen for the final

A lonely alcoholic is delighted when she bumps into an old friend from university, but he might have an ulterior motive for seeing her

An echo from the past comes back to haunt a ruthless executive, and his wife becomes suspicious

After the radio warns that a patient escaped from a mental institution, a cowboy boards a train near the sanatorium and calms a rattled family with tall tales of the Old West

Newspaperman Bradley's habit of playing practical jokes puts morgue attendant Pop Henderson in danger of losing his job. With Albert Salmi and Roscoe Ates

Ian Nathan examines Richard Attenborough's biopic of silent film actor, writer and director Charlie Chaplin, which starred Robert Downey Jr in the title role

Biopic chronicling the renowned silent-film comedian's life and career. Directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Robert Downey Jr, Dan Aykroyd and Anthony Hopkins

A look at the life and career of Quentin Tarantino, whose films include Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Critics Ian Nathan, Neil Norman and Stephen Armstrong count down and discuss their top 25 sci-fi films from the past 100 years

Using clips from more than half a century of archive footage, this film looks back at the life and career of David Hockney, one of Britain's greatest artists

Siân Walters and James Payne explore Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, revealing how the painter's revolutionary vision and embracing of mythology brought the goddess to life

Siân Walters and James Payne explore Da Vinci's The Last Supper, looking at the artist's use of mathematics, perspective and composition

The private photography collection of Roger Thérond, who was the picture editor of Paris Match in its heyday

A look at the Dutch violinist's finest moments as he entertains audiences around the world with his fun, contemporary take on classical music

A 2025 concert by the French electronic music pioneer in the Spanish city's Plaza de España, featuring performances of Oxygene, Equinoxe, Robots Don't Cry and Stardust