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A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey
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Quick facts
First Aired
2011
Seasons
1
Episodes
15
TMDB Rating
⭐ 7.7/10
Votes
64
Genre
Documentary
Status
Ended
Network
Channel 4
Director
Language
EN
Seasons
S01E01
Birth of the Cinema
Mark Cousins tells the story of cinema, starting in this episode with the birth of the movies, telling the glamorous, surprising stories of early moviemaking and the first film sta…
S01E02
The Hollywood Dream
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 chall…
S01E03
The Golden Age of World Cinema
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…
S01E04
The Arrival of Sound
The coming of sound in the 1930s upends everything. We watch the birth of new types of film: screwball comedies, gangster pictures, horror films, westerns and musicals, and discove…
S01E05
Post-War Cinema
Mark Cousins explores how the trauma of war led to more daring creations for cinema, focusing on the darkening of American film and the drama of the McCarthy years. Screenwriters P…
S01E06
Sex & Melodrama
Sex and melodrama in the movies of the fifties: James Dean, On the Waterfront and glossy weepies. We travel to Egypt, India, China, Mexico, Britain and Japan to find that movies th…
S01E07
European New Wave
The explosive story of film in the late fifties and sixties: The great movie star Claudia Cardinale talks exclusively about Federico Fellini; in Denmark, Lars von Trier describes h…
S01E08
New Directors, New Form
The dazzling 1960s in cinema around the world: In Hollywood, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler reveals how documentary influenced mainstream movies. Easy Rider and 2001: A S…
S01E09
American Cinema of the 70s
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 t…
S01E10
Movies to Change the World
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, wh…
S01E11
The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
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 doin…
S01E12
Fight the Power: Protest in Film
Protest in the movies of the 1980s: brave filmmakers spoke truth to power. American independent director John Sayles talks exclusively about these years. In Beijing, Chinese cinema…
S01E13
New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
Film in the 1990s enters a surprise golden age. In Iran we meet Abbas Kiarostami, who rethought movie making and made it more real. Then, in Tokyo, we meet Shinji Tsukamoto, who la…
S01E14
New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
Brilliant, flashy, playful movies in the English speaking world in the nineties. We look at what was new in Tarantino’s dialogue and the edginess of the Coen Brothers. The writer o…
S01E15
Cinema Today and the Future
Movies come full circle: They get more serious after 9/11, and Romanian movies come to the fore. But then David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive becomes one of the most complex dream films…
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Questions about The Story of Film: An Odyssey
How many seasons does The Story of Film: An Odyssey have?
The Story of Film: An Odyssey has 1 season and 15 episodes total.
Who created The Story of Film: An Odyssey?
The Story of Film: An Odyssey was created by Mark Cousins and first aired in 2011.
What genre is The Story of Film: An Odyssey?
The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a Documentary series.
Who stars in The Story of Film: An Odyssey?
The cast of The Story of Film: An Odyssey includes Mark Cousins, Mario Cordova.
What is the TMDB rating for The Story of Film: An Odyssey?
The Story of Film: An Odyssey has a TMDB rating of 7.7/10 based on 64 votes.
