Selma – 11pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n
Drama based on a true story, starring David Oyelowo and Tom Wilkinson. Alabama, 1965: although segregation in the United States is supposed to have ended, equal votes for black people in the Deep South is still not a reality. Nobel prize-winning civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King meets with President Lyndon B Johnson and asks him to act, but when Johnson stalls, Dr King goes to Selma, Alabama, and initiates a series of demonstrations and marches that will change the face of America. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Kid Detective – 12:25am, Channel 4<\/p>\n Comedy drama starring Adam Brody. Two decades since his glory days as a f\u00eated child crime-buster, Abe Applebaum now struggles with addiction, depression and a failing PI business. But when he is approached to solve his first murder case, Abe spots a chance to turn it all around… Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Hate U Give – 1am, Channel 4<\/p>\n Crime drama starring Amandla Stenberg. Sixteen-year-old Starr is from a working-class African-American neighbourhood, but downplays her background at her mostly white private school. When Starr witnesses the fatal police shooting of a childhood friend, she comes to a decision that will rock her community. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Saturday 20th September<\/p>\n The Railway Children – 1pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n Classic period drama based on the novel by E Nesbit, starring Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett and Gary Warren. When a government official is arrested on suspicion of treason, his wife and three children are forced to leave their London home and move to a small cottage in Yorkshire. While their mother fights for her husband’s release, the children have marvellous adventures. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Night of San Lorenzo – 9pm, Talking Pictures TV<\/p>\n A group of Italians flee their home town in 1944, fearing the Nazis are about to attack, but live in hope that they will be liberated by the Americans. Drama, starring Margarita Lozano and Claudio Bigagli. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Creator – 9pm, Channel 4<\/p>\n John David Washington as Joshua in The Creator.\u00a0Disney<\/p>\n Futuristic sci-fi thriller starring John David Washington. Huge leaps in robotics and machine learning lead to an artificial intelligence apparently choosing to detonate a nuclear bomb over Los Angeles. Now outlawed across much of the world, all remaining AI-powered bots have relocated to New Asia where US soldier Joshua Taylor is sent to find information about a formidable weapon being developed by the machines. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Heat – 11:50pm, Legend<\/p>\n Crime thriller starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Detective Vincent Hanna is closing in on notorious professional thief Neil McCauley. But even though he realises that the police are watching his every move, McCauley decides to go ahead with one final heist before leaving the US for a new life. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Before I Go To Sleep – 12:10am, BBC One<\/p>\n Mystery thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth. Following a serious accident, Christine Lucas wakes up every morning with no memory of the life she has made with her husband Ben. But despite his patience and the help of a neurologist, Christine begins to question everything she is told about what happened to her. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Sunday 21st September<\/p>\n Kind Hearts and Coronets – 11am, Film4<\/p>\n Classic Ealing comedy starring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness and Joan Greenwood. Louis Mazzini is whiling away the eve of his execution by working on his memoirs. Born the distant heir to a dukedom, he recalls his vow to avenge his wronged mother by planning the murder of all the members of her noble family who stood between him and the title he covets. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Mary Queen of Scots – 12:15pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n Historical drama starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson. Mary Stuart returns to Scotland from France to accept the title of Queen, but her arrival is met with hostility from Protestant nobles. Meanwhile Mary’s scheming cousin, Queen Elizabeth of England, and her equally devious half-brother, James, have desires on the crown themselves. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Carrie – 10pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n Brian De Palma’s dramatisation of Stephen King’s bestselling horror story, starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. Shy Carrie White is repressed by her mother and ridiculed by her classmates, who make her life a misery with their taunting. But, unbeknown to them, Carrie has special powers. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Get Out – 11:35pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n Oscar-winning horror mystery starring Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams. Chris, a young African-American photographer, is understandably anxious when he’s invited to stay with his wealthy white girlfriend’s parents at their family estate. Admitting she hasn’t told them he’s black only adds to Chris’s apprehension, but mum and dad are warm and welcoming. However, as the weekend unfolds, Chris begins to suspect all is not as it seems. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Guilty – 12:55am, Channel 4<\/p>\n Crime thriller starring Jakob Cedergren and Jessica Dinnage. Copenhagen police officer Asger Holm struggles with his temper and has been suspended from active duty. While manning the emergency calls desk, he receives a dispatch from a kidnapped woman and becomes obsessed with saving her. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Monday 22nd September<\/p>\n The Winslow Boy – 11am, Film4<\/p>\n Drama, based on Terence Rattigan’s play, starring Robert Donat, Margaret Leighton and Cedric Hardwicke. Retired bank official Arthur Winslow risks everything to clear the name of his son who has been expelled from naval college for allegedly stealing a postal order. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n The History Boys – 11pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n Drama based on the hit play by Alan Bennett, starring Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour and Stephen Campbell Moore. Sheffield, 1983: the ambitious headmaster of Cutler’s Grammar School engages Irwin to coach his eight star pupils for the Oxbridge entrance exams. In contrast to his eccentric colleague, Hector, the new recruit has an iconoclastic approach to education that meets with suspicion and resistance. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Team America: World Police – 11:05pm, Film4<\/p>\n Satirical comedy co-written, directed by and featuring the voices of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and performed by Thunderbirds-style puppets. A counter-terrorism squad causes havoc as it does battle with the Film Actors Guild and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, who is bent on destroying the civilised world. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Tuesday 23rd September<\/p>\n Mandy – 11am, Film4<\/p>\n Drama starring Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins and Mandy Miller. A couple become divided over whether their daughter, who’s born deaf, should be sent to a special school. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Professionals – 1pm, Great Action<\/p>\n Western starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin and Robert Ryan. Four soldiers of fortune are hired to rescue the wife of a cattle baron, who is being held by a ruthless Mexican revolutionary. But, after a gruelling ride across frontier country to the bandit’s stronghold, the mercenaries discover their mission is not all that it seems. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Swimmer – 3:05pm, Film4<\/p>\n Drama starring Burt Lancaster. On a summer’s day in Connecticut, Ned Merrill begins a journey of self-discovery when he decides to swim home via the pools of various neighbours. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Wednesday 24th September<\/p>\n The Proud Rebel – 1pm, Great Action<\/p>\n A Confederate veteran struggles with his son’s shock-induced muteness. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Titanic – 5:10pm, Film4<\/p>\n Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic.\u00a020th Century Fox<\/p>\n James Cameron’s Oscar-winning blockbuster, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. During the Titanic’s maiden voyage in 1912, penniless artist Jack Dawson falls in love with socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater, who is travelling with her fianc\u00e9. Years later, Rose relives the affair and the tragic events that followed, while a salvage crew searches for a priceless diamond said to have been lost in the shipwreck. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n How to Blow Up a Pipeline – 11:10pm, Film4<\/p>\n Crime thriller starring Ariela Barer and Sasha Lane. A small group of people from various walks of life converge on a remote cabin in Texas with a shared goal: to plan and carry out an attack on a stretch of oil pipeline. Despite various setbacks, they forge ahead with their act of environmental protest, hoping to inspire others to do the same. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Thursday 25th September<\/p>\n Schindler\u2019s List – 11pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n Steven Spielberg’s classic biographical drama starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes. In 1939, businessman Oskar Schindler, a Gentile, comes to Krakow with the idea of getting rich quickly by using cheap Jewish labour in his factory supplying the German war effort. As Jewish persecution spreads throughout Europe, Schindler, although a close associate of SS officers, finds it worth his while to protect his workers from the escalating evil around him. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Carlito\u2019s Way – 11:20pm, Film4<\/p>\n Gangster drama starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn and Penelope Ann Miller. Heroin dealer Carlito Brigante is released from prison after serving five years of a 30-year sentence, and wants to go straight. But old acquaintances conspire to turn him back to crime. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Elephant Man – 11:35pm, BBC Four<\/p>\n David Lynch’s dramatisation of the life of John Merrick, starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins. 1884: an ambitious young London surgeon is intrigued by a sideshow freak billed as the “Elephant Man”. But behind the appallingly disfigured and brutalised exhibit, he finds an intelligent and sensitive person whose rehabilitation he undertakes. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Friday 26th September<\/p>\n Nothing But the Best – 3:05pm, Film4<\/p>\n Black comedy starring Alan Bates and Denholm Elliott. Humble estate agent’s clerk Jimmy Brewster, determined to become a gentleman whatever the cost, asks a sleazy ex-public schoolboy to teach him social graces. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Genevieve – 6:45pm, Talking Pictures TV<\/p>\n Comedy starring Kenneth More, John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, and Kay Kendall. Two couples taking part in the London to Brighton veteran car rally suffer various misadventures, not least when personal rivalries make the return journey even more competitive. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Long Good Friday- 12:40am, Film4<\/p>\n Crime drama starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. East End gangster Harold Shand is trying to set up a massive property deal involving the impending redevelopment of the London Docklands area. When his plans are knocked off course by the violent intervention of an unknown rival, Harold seeks revenge. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n Seven Psychopaths – 12:40am, Channel 4<\/p>\n Black comedy drama starring Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson. Struggling screenwriter Marty finds inspiration for his next script in the dog-napping operation run by his nefarious best friend Billy and his partner Hans. But the target of their next sting is going to put everyone’s lives in danger. Read our full review<\/a><\/p>\n If you have Netflix, we have rounded up the best movies on Netflix<\/a> and the best series on Netflix<\/a> to watch now \u2013 and Disney Plus viewers can check out our best movies on Disney Plus<\/a> guide. Got Prime Video? We also have the best movies on Amazon Prime.<\/a><\/p>\n Check out more of our Film<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. 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