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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 · E03

The Golden Age of World Cinema

Series 1 · Sep 17, 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

E03Playing

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

The 1920s were a golden age for world cinema. The programme visits Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Shanghai and Tokyo to explore the places where movie makers were pushing the boundaries of the medium. German expressionism, Soviet montage and French impressionism and surrealism were passionate new film movements, but less well known are the glories of Chinese and Japanese films and the moving story of one of the great, now largely forgotten, movie stars, Ruan Lingyu.