Sky Greats HD
Ireland
Sky Greats HD is a channel available to Sky subscribers in Ireland, primarily focused on broadcasting classic films from past decades. The schedule typically features a rotation of well-known Hollywood titles, often from the 1970s through the 1990s, presented in high definition. Viewers in Ireland can find it listed among the entertainment channels on the Sky platform, where it airs movies without commercial interruption during the film itself. The channel does not produce original programming or current series, instead relying on a library of older cinematic releases. Its programming is in English and aligns with the general movie channel offerings available to Irish audiences through satellite television.
Schedule
01:05 - 03:05
Innerspace
Film, Comedy
A scientifically miniaturised marine unexpectedly finds himself floating around the body of a hypochondriac, and trying to outwit saboteurs who want the device that shrank him. Attempts by his colleagues to retrieve the little man - protected inside a tiny submersible - are...
03:05 - 05:20
Waterworld
Film, Science Fiction
Big-budget tale of the battle for survival in a world where dry land has disappeared with the melting of the polar ice caps. One man, who has become amphibious, tries to protect survivors on an artificial atoll made from scrap metal by taking on a gang of marauding pirates. He...
05:20 - 07:05
The Last Starfighter
Film, Science Fiction
A teenage video-game whiz is recruited as an interstellar fighter pilot by an emissary from a league of planets.
07:05 - 08:40
Critters
Film, Horror
Hilarity and horror ensue when toothy, carnivorous aliens escape from their space prison, pursued by two merciless bounty hunters. When they reach the Kansas farmhouse of an all-American family, the humans do everything they can to fend off the critters, but they cannot free...
08:40 - 10:40
Logan's Run
Film, Science Fiction
In 2274, computers rule a hermetically sealed city housing the survivors of a holocaust that has decimated the earth. Life is hedonistic and happy for the city's inhabitants; unfortunately they must be terminated when they reach 30. When Logan 5, a trained hunter for the system,...
10:40 - 12:40
Days of Thunder
Drama, Film
A hotshot rookie stock car driver sets his sights on the professional NASCAR circuit and the prestigious Daytona 500.
12:40 - 14:35
Shenandoah
Film, War
A man's neutrality during the American Civil War is tested by his daughter's marriage and his son's capture by Union forces.
14:35 - 16:35
Logan's Run
Film, Science Fiction
In 2274, computers rule a hermetically sealed city housing the survivors of a holocaust that has decimated the earth. Life is hedonistic and happy for the city's inhabitants; unfortunately they must be terminated when they reach 30. When Logan 5, a trained hunter for the system,...
16:35 - 18:35
Demolition Man
Film, Science Fiction
Violence has been outlawed in the politically correct regime of 2032, and the only weapons in existence are consigned to a museum, but when an escaped psychopath heads straight for the museum, the authorities decide the only effective recourse they have is to thaw out a violent,...
18:35 - 21:00
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Drama, Film
On his return from the Crusades, Robin of Locksley learns that his father has been murdered by the tyrannical Sheriff of Nottingham and embarks on a campaign of guerrilla warfare to protect King Richard's throne. Fight scenes are lively and inventive, and a set piece fought...
21:00 - 22:25
Lake Placid
Film, Horror
Following the death of a local diver, a New York palaeontologist is sent out to help the local fisheries warden investigate the case.
22:25 - 00:50
The Shining
Film, Horror
Frustrated writer Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker at the ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. When he arrives there with his wife and son, they learn that the previous caretaker had gone mad. Slowly Jack becomes possessed by...