The Story of Film: An Odyssey

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

S01E15 Cinema Today and the Future
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In the final part of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, movies come full circle. They get more serious after 9/11, followed ...
S01E14 New American Independents & the Digital Revolution
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A story of the brilliant and flashy movies in the English-speaking world in the 90s. We look at what was new in Tarantin...
S01E12 Fight the Power
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With Ronald Reagan in the White House and Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, the 1980s were the years of protest in th...
S01E11 The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
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Star Wars and Jaws created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. This chapter explains how, and then travels t...
S01E10 Movies to Change the World
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This is the story of the movies that tried to change the world in the 70s. We start in Germany with Wim Wenders, head to...
S01E09 American Cinema of the 70s
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This is the remarkable story of the maturing of American cinema of the late 60s and 70s. Buck Henry talks exclusively ab...
S01E08 New Directors, New Form
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This is the story of the dazzling 1960s in cinema around the world. In Hollywood, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexl...
S01E07 European New Wave
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This is the explosive story of film in the late 50s and 60s. Movie star Claudia Cardinale talks exclusively about Federi...
S01E06 Sex & Melodrama
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This part explores the story of sex and melodrama in the movies of the 50s. We discover On the Waterfront and the glossy...
S01E05 Post-War Cinema
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This part of The Story of Film shows how the trauma of war made cinema more daring. The story starts in Italy, and then ...
S01E04 The Arrival of Sound
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In part 4, we see how the coming of sound in the 1930s upended everything. We watch the birth of new types of film: scre...
S01E03 The Golden Age of World Cinema
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The 1920s were a golden age for world cinema. In this part, we visit Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Shanghai and Tokyo to discov...
S01E02 The Hollywood Dream
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This is the fascinating story of the movies in the roaring 20s. We see how Hollywood became a glittering entertainment i...
S01E01 Birth of the Cinema
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This opening of The Story of Film: An Odyssey shows the birth of a great new art form, the movies. Filmed in the very bu...