BBC iPlayer: new deal brings films like Citizen Kane and King Kong to service

23 classics from the RKO era – including King Kong, Bringing Up Baby, Citizen Kane and Top Hat – are heading to BBC iPlayer. Here’s some excellent news. The BBC has announced a fresh deal that’s going to see 23 films from the RKO catalogue to its service. Furthermore, said films are going to be arriving this very month. The RKO Studio, one of the original Hollywood majors, was behind many movies now considered flat-out classics, and from May 18^th, the following films will be available to stream via the iPlayer service. Angel Face Beautiful But Dangerous Blackbeard The Pirate Bringing Up Baby Carefree Citizen Kane Fort Apache (1948) King Kong (1933) Kitty Foyle Love Affair (1939) Magnificent Ambersons Mr Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse My Favourite Wife She Wore A Yellow Ribbon Suspicion The Gay Divorce The Miracle Of The Bells The Sky’s The Limit The Spanish Main The Velvet Touch Top Hat Vivacious Lady Wagon Master We’re indebted to Yahoo for the heads up on this. You don’t need us to tell you that there are some flat-out classics available on that list, and they’ll be available in the UK for free streaming via iPlayer from next week. ———— Thank you for visiting! If you’d like to support our attempts to make a non-clickbaity movie website: Become a Patron here. Follow Film Stories on Twitter here, and on Facebook here. Sign up for our newsletter here. Buy our Film Stories and Film Stories Junior print magazines here.