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The Story of Film: An Odyssey

20111h 0m / epDocumentary

First aired

September 3, 2011

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S01 · E10

Movies to Change the World

Series 1 · Nov 5, 2011 · 1h 3m

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E01▶

Birth of the Cinema

Sep 3, 2011 · 1h 3m

E02▶

The Hollywood Dream

Sep 10, 2011 · 1h 3m

E03▶

The Golden Age of World Cinema

Sep 17, 2011 · 1h 3m

E04▶

The Arrival of Sound

Sep 24, 2011 · 1h 3m

E05▶

Post-War Cinema

Oct 1, 2011 · 1h 3m

E06▶

Sex & Melodrama

Oct 8, 2011 · 1h 3m

E07▶

European New Wave

Oct 15, 2011 · 1h 3m

E08▶

New Directors, New Form

Oct 22, 2011 · 1h 3m

E09▶

American Cinema of the 70s

Oct 29, 2011 · 1h 2m

E10Playing

Movies to Change the World

Nov 5, 2011 · 1h 3m

E11▶

The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream

Nov 12, 2011 · 1h 3m

E12▶

Fight the Power: Protest in Film

Nov 19, 2011 · 1h 3m

E13▶

New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America

Nov 26, 2011 · 1h 3m

E14▶

New American Independents & The Digital Revolution

Dec 3, 2011 · 1h 4m

E15▶

Cinema Today and the Future

Dec 10, 2011 · 1h 4m

The movies that tried to change the world in the seventies: Wim Wenders in Germany; Ken Loach and Britain; Pasolini in Italy; the birth of new Australian cinema; and then Japan, which was making the most moving films in the world. Even bigger, bolder questions about film were being asked in Africa and South America, and the story ends with John Lennon’s favourite film, the extraordinary, psychedelic The Holy Mountain.