CNN: The Screening Room (Video)

The Best of British Cinema

December 2025 •English

Sir John Mills narrates this entertaining compilation. "The Best of British Cinema" takes an insightful look back at some of the finest and most memorable feature films to be produced in major British studios over a period of five decades. All of the major stars are here, from Olivier to Leigh, from Sabu to Robert Donat, along with eminent directors. This series confirms the power, humor and drama of the great British films.

Citizen Rose

December 2025 •English

Rose McGowan, artist and activist, documents the work being done to spread her message of “bravery, art, joy and survival.”

Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood

December 2025 •English

Each installment focuses on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary, cutting-edge films of the 1960s.

How Music Got Free

December 2025 •English

Details the fascinating, and often funny, inside story of the technology-driven disruption that changed music during the late-90s and early-2000s. File sharing technology, combined with the insatiable demand for new music, created both the means and the motive for millions of young people to participate in outright theft – and be celebrated for it.

Blackbeard

December 2025 •English

Drama documentary about Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, who terrorised the British colonies in the Americas during the golden age of piracy.

Ross Kemp in Search of Pirates

December 2025 •English

Ross Kemp documents the ever-increasing risk of piracy on the world’s oceans as he searches for pirates off the coasts of Somalia, Nigeria and the seas of South East Asia.

US Navy: Pirate Hunters

December 2025 •English

US Navy: Pirate Hunters is a one hour special following the U.S. Navy's efforts to capture the pirates that have been making headlines terrorizing commercial merchant ships off the coast of Africa.

Old Time Buddy

December 2025 •

A light comic memoir of the four hottest movies stars in the sixties through the nineties. Bosom friends Yuen and Ki try their luck in the show business together. But it turns out that only Yuen is destined to stardom. He is given the chance to often costar with the two hottest actresses, Fong and Chu. When Ki eventually becomes popular, the black and white movie industry starts to find its way downhill. Worse still, Ki is badly defamed when the secret of his father being a murderer is disclosed. He suspects Yuen to be behind this and they become enemies. Thirty years later, Yuen, Ki, Fong and Chu meet again. Will time help unravel their misunderstanding?

Screen

December 2025 •Korean

Kim So Hyun (Kim Tae Hee) is an orphan who lost her father at a young age. Her father, who was a movie director, died in a fire while trying to save his original movie. Having been inspired at a young age, So Hyun took up writing with a desire to make a movie someday. When So Hyun becomes a young adult, she moves into a new apartment. Due to a communication error, she ends up sharing the apartment with a handsome young man named Kim Joon Pyo (Gong Yoo). Little does she know that Song Yoo Ra (Oh Seung Hyun), a childhood classmate, has a secret crush on Joon Pyo! Coincidentally, Yoo Ra and So Hyun work at the same place - So Hyun as the theater clean-up attendant, and Yoo-Ra as a staff in the production department. Park Tae-Young (Park Jung-Chul) is another staff in the production department of the theater that So Hyun and Yoo Ra work at. He meets So Hyun and is surprised to find himself eventually falling for her.

The Pirate Bay

December 2025 •Swedish

The series tells the remarkable story of how three young men, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, united in the fight for a free internet and founded the download site The Pirate Bay. Their idea of free access to information, music, books and movies would fundamentally change the internet.

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

December 2025 •English

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Weird Kids

December 2025 •English

Ashley Johnson and Taliesin Jaffe deep dive into their lives as the Weird Kids! This is a formal invitation to all the misfits, outcasts, and weirdos to take a seat at our table and join these former child actors as they embrace their unique upbringings and celebrate all things weird and wonderful.

Kung Faux

December 2025 •English

Old 1970s Martial arts films individually re-cut down to standard television half hour lengths, re-scored with hit music, re-dubbed with the comedic voice overs of hip hop personalities, and re-combined with comic book style graphics and video game theme pacing.

Familiekoden

December 2025 •Norwegian

Under Your Skin with Grace Neutral

December 2025 •English

Join @graceneutral in her new show, where she will be inviting different celebrities into her studio for a chat and a new tattoo.

Daughters of the Cult

December 2025 •English

A deep-dive into the history of a splinter group of Mormon fundamentalist cult members who perpetrate a deadly wave of violence and abuse for decades in the name of their fanatical prophet, Ervil LeBaron.

Inside the Tower of London

December 2025 •English

At 950 years old, the Tower of London is one of the oldest landmarks in Britain and has had many famous residents over the centuries, from Guy Fawkes to the Kray twins. But the only people who live in the ancient stronghold these days are the 37 ‘Yeoman Warders’ – or Beefeaters – who guard the walls and look after the three million visitors who walk through the gates every year.

The Truth About...

December 2025 •English

Science documentary series tackling everyday issues that affect us all.

Drei Jahrzehnte Ein Wir

December 2025 •German

Russell Howard Stands Up to the World

December 2025 •English

The stand-up comedian performs in Denmark, New Zealand and Germany over the course of two months - one of the first people to do so since lockdown began. Between gigs he explores the countries he's visiting.