Surfaced

BBC4 is doubling down on old films, and old films about old films. 

Or, as BBC PR speak has it, "Across the year, BBC Four will be curating a number of seasons focussed on film to accompany ground-breaking documentaries surfaced from the archive."

The first season will re-show the six part documentary, The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood, made by the BBC in 1987, in collaboration with RKO and narrated by Ed Asner. It was rebranded Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story for the US market in 1988, where it was first shown on A+E. 

It was reshown on BBC4 in 2008/9. 

Alongside this re-run, starting on April 21, you'll get to see King Kong, Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House, The Outlaw, Top Hat, The Gay Divorce, Bringing Up Baby, My Favourite Wife, Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Suspicion, Angel Face, Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie and The Thing From Another World.