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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 · E09

American Cinema of the 70s

Series 1 · Oct 29, 2011 · 1h 2m

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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

E09Playing

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 maturing of American cinema of the late sixties and seventies: Buck Henry, writer of The Graduate, talks exclusively about movie satire of the time. Paul Schrader reveals his thoughts on his existential screenplay for Taxi Driver. Writer Robert Towne explores the dark ideas in Chinatown, and director Charles Burnett talks about the birth of Black American cinema.