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The Story of Film: An Odyssey

20111h 0m / epDocumentary

First aired

September 3, 2011

7.7

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S01 · E02

The Hollywood Dream

Series 1 · Sep 10, 2011 · 1h 3m

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Birth of the Cinema

Sep 3, 2011 · 1h 3m

E02Playing

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

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

Movies in the Roaring Twenties: Hollywood became a glittering entertainment industry with star directors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. But the gloss and fantasy was challenged by movie makers like Robert Flaherty, Eric Von Stroheim and Carl Theodor Dreyer, who wanted films to be more serious and mature. This was a battle for the soul of cinema. The result: some of the greatest movies ever made.