GREAT! Movies TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On GREAT! Movies Tonight

Published: 14 September 2026

GREAT! Movies is a free-to-air film channel, though a fair bit harder to stumble across since a 2025 reshuffle of the Freeview line-up (more on that below). Tonight, Tuesday 15 September 2026, the Freeview EPG has the evening running four films: The Battle of Britain from 6:12pm, then Farewell to Arms from 7:13pm, the Spitfire-designer biopic The First of the Few from 8:49pm, and The Stuka closing out the night from 11:03pm. Checking again for tonight, an independent listings site that carries this Freeview slot again showed sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime schedule (Martha’s Vineyard Mysteries among the titles) under the same URL instead of this line-up, the same mix-up this channel has produced on previous nights. The titles the Freeview EPG itself lists are films rather than the mystery-drama episodes that mixed-up source showed, which is the best confirmation available, but tonight’s running order still isn’t independently confirmed — worth checking the on-screen guide nearer the time.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Tuesday 15 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Tuesday 15 September 2026, on Freeview 62.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

Four films fill the overnight hours: Eliminators opens at 12:38am, then Dragon Eyes from 2:18am, and two classic westerns close out the small hours, Wrangler from 3:55am and The Duel from 5:35am.

Air Rescue holds the breakfast slot on its own, seven short editions running back to back from 7:23am through to 10am, before the war picture Total War – Light Panzers takes over at 10:25am and Gung Ho follows at 11:32am.

Three more titles fill the afternoon: Tomorrow We Live from 1:09pm and the war picture Hell in Normandy from 4:26pm, either side of an afternoon slot the feed hasn’t managed to name. See tonight’s primetime below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 15 September 2026. As with recent nights, an independent listings check for today showed sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s schedule sitting under this same slot instead of a film line-up, so treat the titles below as the Freeview EPG’s word rather than an independently confirmed running order.

The Battle of Britain — GREAT! Movies, 6:12pm

A war film opens the evening, though the hour-long slot here doesn’t match the celebrated 1969 all-star epic of the same name, which runs well over two hours with Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier among the cast — this is more likely a shorter picture or documentary sharing the title. Worth double-checking on the night rather than assuming the bigger production.

Farewell to Arms — GREAT! Movies, 7:13pm

Ernest Hemingway’s story of a doomed wartime romance on the Italian front has been filmed twice, in 1932 with Gary Cooper and again in 1957 with Rock Hudson. The 96-minute slot listed here sits closer to the earlier version, though the EPG doesn’t say which cut is airing.

The First of the Few — GREAT! Movies, 8:49pm

Tonight’s listing had run under the truncated heading “FIRST OF THE FEW, THE”; corrected, it’s The First of the Few, Leslie Howard’s 1942 account of Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell’s life, which Howard directed as well as starred in, partly as wartime morale-building rather than pure entertainment. David Niven plays a test-pilot friend, and it turned out to be Howard’s final screen role before his death the following year.

The Stuka — GREAT! Movies, 11:03pm

A short, late-night war picture named for the German dive bomber, closing out an evening that has leaned on WWII settings from The Battle of Britain onwards. At just over an hour it plays more like a supporting feature than a main event.

What kind of films are on GREAT! Movies

Classic Hollywood and westerns

The overnight schedule is where the channel’s deepest library lives: 1950s and ’60s Hollywood, John Wayne westerns through to Alan Ladd dramas, accumulated over more than a decade of broadcasting. It’s also the only stretch of the day where the films are genuinely old rather than just cheap, and if you set a recorder for anything here, set it for the small hours.

Lifetime-style crime and thriller movies

Daytime belongs to the made-for-TV thriller that Lifetime and its American equivalents turn out at pace. Missing persons, family secrets, one twist, done inside 90 minutes. Quality swings about a good deal from title to title, and none of it is trying to be more than something to have on.

Contemporary action and thriller premieres

Evenings bring newer titles, generally from the last five to twenty years, mostly domestic-menace thrillers with the occasional proper action picture and a recognisable lead.

How to watch GREAT! Movies

Channel numbers

GREAT! Movies isn’t where it used to be. Here’s where to actually find it now:

Until 4 September 2025 this was an ordinary aerial-only channel on Freeview 50 and Sky 321. GREAT! Mystery has those slots now. Nothing about it costs money, but the broadband requirement is the bit that catches people out, particularly anyone still using an older box.

Streaming online

GREAT! Movies streams free through Great! Player at great-player.com, no account required, with apps for Amazon Fire TV, YouView, and Samsung and LG smart TVs, plus the App Store and Google Play. Alongside the live stream there’s a library of past films, which is how you pick something up after it has aired.

GREAT! sister channels

GREAT! Movies is one of five channels Narrative Entertainment UK Limited runs under the GREAT! banner, all of them part of Sony’s UK line-up before the 2021 sale and rebrand.

All five sit in the same Great! Player app, which is how you reach GREAT! Movies on the platforms that no longer list it.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is GREAT! Movies on Freeview?

Channel 62, a connected Freeview Play slot since 4 September 2025, so it needs broadband as well as an aerial. Older Freeview boxes and standalone recorders without internet access can’t tune in. Freely carries it on 57.

Is GREAT! Movies still on Sky and Virgin Media?

Not under this name. Its old Sky slots (321, HD 318, +1 322) and Virgin Media slot were permanently rebranded to GREAT! Mystery in the same swap. Great! Player is the way to watch it if your TV isn’t set up for Freeview Play or Freely.

What’s on GREAT! Movies tonight?

Four films run tonight: The Battle of Britain from 6:12pm, Farewell to Arms at 7:13pm, the Spitfire-designer biopic The First of the Few at 8:49pm, and The Stuka closing out the night from 11:03pm. An independent listings site checked again for tonight showed sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime schedule under this slot instead of a film line-up, the same mix-up this channel has produced before, so this running order is UNVERIFIED beyond the Freeview EPG’s own listing — check the on-screen guide nearer the time.

Is GREAT! Movies free to watch, and does it carry adverts?

Free on all three: Freeview Play, Freely and Great! Player. There are ad breaks during films, as on any commercially funded channel, but no subscription and no sign-in required.

Who owns GREAT! Movies?

Narrative Entertainment UK Limited. It launched on Sky in May 2012 as Sony Movie Channel, reached Freeview in January 2017, became Sony Movies in 2019, and took the GREAT! Movies name in May 2021 after Narrative Capital bought Sony’s UK free-to-air channels.

What are the GREAT! sister channels?

GREAT! Action (Freeview 42), GREAT! TV (Freeview 34), GREAT! Romance (Freeview 52) and GREAT! Mystery (Freeview 50), which took over GREAT! Movies’ old, more prominent Freeview slot. All stream free via Great! Player.

Can I watch GREAT! Movies online for free, and is there catch-up?

Yes. Great! Player at great-player.com, plus apps on Freeview Play, Freely, YouView, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung and LG smart TVs. No account needed, and the film library works as catch-up.

Verdict

The programming hasn’t got worse. The finding of it has. A channel that used to be a couple of button presses away now wants a broadband connection, a Freeview Play box or the Great! Player app, and some willingness to go looking, which is a genuine cost for something whose whole appeal was being there when you flicked past it.

Tonight’s own line-up carries an extra caveat: an independent listings site that would normally confirm a schedule like this is again showing sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime dramas under the GREAT! Movies banner, so The Battle of Britain, Farewell to Arms, The First of the Few and The Stuka come from the Freeview EPG alone rather than a confirmed source. Treat the schedule table as the best available answer rather than a certainty, and check the on-screen guide before settling in. Nobody is choosing GREAT! Movies over a cinema release regardless, but as undemanding evening viewing it does the job it always has.

Related: Film4 TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide | Films on TV This Week