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The Story of Film: An Odyssey

20111h 0m / epDocumentary

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September 3, 2011

7.7

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S01 · E11

The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream

Series 1 · Nov 12, 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

E10▶

Movies to Change the World

Nov 5, 2011 · 1h 3m

E11Playing

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

Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. In India the world’s most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new things in the seventies too. And we discover that Bruce Lee movies kick-started the kinetic films of Hong Kong, where master Yuen Woo-ping talks exclusively about his action movies and his wire fu choreography for The Matrix.