Movies come full circle: They get more serious after 9/11, and Romanian movies come to the fore. But then David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive becomes one of the most complex dream…

Brilliant, flashy, playful movies in the English speaking world in the nineties. We look at what was new in Tarantino’s dialogue and the edginess of the Coen Brothers. The writer…

The movies that tried to change the world in the seventies: Wim Wenders in Germany; Ken Loach and Britain; Pasolini in Italy; the birth of new Australian cinema; and then…

Mark Cousins explores how the trauma of war led to more daring creations for cinema, focusing on the darkening of American film and the drama of the McCarthy years. Screenwriters…

The 1920s were a golden age for world cinema. The programme visits Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Shanghai and Tokyo to explore the places where movie makers were pushing the boundaries of…

The coming of sound in the 1930s upends everything. We watch the birth of new types of film: screwball comedies, gangster pictures, horror films, westerns and musicals, and discover a…

The maturing of American cinema of the late sixties and seventies: Buck Henry, writer of The Graduate, talks exclusively about movie satire of the time. Paul Schrader reveals his thoughts…

Film in the 1990s enters a surprise golden age. In Iran we meet Abbas Kiarostami, who rethought movie making and made it more real. Then, in Tokyo, we meet Shinji…

The explosive story of film in the late fifties and sixties: The great movie star Claudia Cardinale talks exclusively about Federico Fellini; in Denmark, Lars von Trier describes his admiration…

The dazzling 1960s in cinema around the world: In Hollywood, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler reveals how documentary influenced mainstream movies. Easy Rider and 2001: A Space Odyssey signal a new…

Sex and melodrama in the movies of the fifties: James Dean, On the Waterfront and glossy weepies. We travel to Egypt, India, China, Mexico, Britain and Japan to find that…

Mark Cousins tells the story of cinema, starting in this episode with the birth of the movies, telling the glamorous, surprising stories of early moviemaking and the first film stars.

Protest in the movies of the 1980s: brave filmmakers spoke truth to power. American independent director John Sayles talks exclusively about these years. In Beijing, Chinese cinema blossomed before the…

Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. In India the world’s most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new…

Movies in the Roaring Twenties: Hollywood became a glittering entertainment industry with star directors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. But the gloss and fantasy was challenged by movie makers…

The NBC series “Grimm” inspires the makeup created by the competing artists.

The remaining three artists are tasked with creating Halloween-themed characters, which they then must have perform in a choreographed stunt show.

Sean Astin greets the contestants, who are challenged to create original aliens for the “Star Wars” cantina scene in the Season 3 opener.

The competing artists use makeup to create looks inspired by Dr. Seuss’ “Sleep Book,” which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Material from a junkyard must be used in a cyborg challenge.

The contestants create makeup for superheroes and their sidekicks after getting inspiration from some astonishing vehicles. Kevin Smith is a guest judge.

The contestants must create an original pirate character “who has become one with the sea”.

The contestants create zombie makeup for characters from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Director Paul W.S. Anderson serves as a guest judge.

The artists take inspiration from the video game Dishonored when creating characters with exaggerated features for the challenge.

The competing artists are tasked with creating original movie monsters based on sketches done by children.

Viewers choose the Season 3 winner, who will be announced during the finale in Los Angeles. Also: The eliminated artists reunite.

The Chinese New Year is the theme as the contestants create dragon makeup for performers doing an acrobatic dance routine.

The team competes in a trauma wound foundation contest then return to the lab, which has been transformed into a jungle, and discover they’ll be studying live animals to create…

A late-night call summons the contestants to an abandoned hospital in Los Angeles. When they arrive they each get to choose an obscure phobia to use as the basis for…

The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is visited ahead of a challenge in which the contestants must make waterproof creature makeup.

This week, aliens are the artists’ focus and guest judge Star Trek Next Generation’s LeVar Burton helps out.

A nude body painting challenge unfolds as the contestants try to make an album cover for hip-hop star (and guest judge) Asher Roth.

The five remaining contestants participate in a double-elimination event to create a human-dinosaur hybrid to determine which of them will go to the finale.

For the foundation challenge, the contestants must debeautify attractive models,.make triplets appear to be at different stages of their elderly lives.

Creating a new character from an ordinary occupation for a Tim Burton film.

The finalists must each create three original characters from a specific movie genre who will perform a choreographed-dance routine at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA.

Fourteen aspiring makeup artists face off in the Season 2 premiere, which has them re-imagining characters from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.

Makeup artist Michael Westmore meets the contestants at Vasquez Rocks in Southern California, where episodes of “Star Trek” were shot, and the competitors learn that they must create an alien…

In teams of two, the contestants turn brides into grooms and grooms into brides.

The reality competition celebrates its 100th episode in style when the artists turn real-life couples into whimsically undead duos. Following the challenge, host McKenzie Westmore, who recently became an ordained…