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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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…

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

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…

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

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

A winner is crowned in the conclusion of the two-part Season 9 finale. But first, the finalists finish work on their characters for the short films they’re making with director…

The challenge is to create a new human/animal hybrid based from 3 exotic animals that are brought into lab.

Part 1 of 2. The finalists learn their last challenge is to work with a real-life Hollywood director and full production crew to create three stunning short films on location.

The remaining artists add their own twist to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Inspired by Syfy’s The Expanse, the artists must create a character that represents the next stage in human evolution.

A “barbaric” Foundation Challenge is judged by Oscar-winning makeup artist Robin Matthews. That’s followed by a trip to the circus as the seven remaining artists compete to dazzle the judges…

The artists face the challenge of taking a male model and turning him into a female character from a classic Shakespearean play.

Retro-style alien characters created for a Foundation Challenge come into play when the artists receive their Spotlight Challenge.

The artists paired up to create the gatekeeper to an alternate dimension … and the creature he or she guards.