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The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Storyline
A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
Cast & Crew
- Created by: Mark Cousins
- Starring: Mark Cousins, Mario Cordova
The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Series Details
| First Air Date | 2011-09-03 |
| Seasons | 1 |
| Episodes | 15 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Language | English |
| Network | Channel 4 |
| Status | Ended |
| Rating | 7.7/10 (69 votes) |
The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Episode Guide
Series 1
- E1: Birth of the Cinema (2011-09-03) — 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
- E2: The Hollywood Dream (2011-09-10) — 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
- E3: The Golden Age of World Cinema (2011-09-17) — 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
- E4: The Arrival of Sound (2011-09-24) — 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
- E5: Post-War Cinema (2011-10-01) — 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
- E6: Sex & Melodrama (2011-10-08) — 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
- E7: European New Wave (2011-10-15) — 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
- E8: New Directors, New Form (2011-10-22) — 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
- E9: American Cinema of the 70s (2011-10-29) — 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
- E10: Movies to Change the World (2011-11-05) — 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
- E11: The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream (2011-11-12) — 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
- E12: Fight the Power: Protest in Film (2011-11-19) — 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
- E13: New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America (2011-11-26) — 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
- E14: New American Independents & The Digital Revolution (2011-12-03) — 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
- E15: Cinema Today and the Future (2011-12-10) — 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
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does The Story of Film: An Odyssey have? 1 season(s) with 15 episodes.
Who created The Story of Film: An Odyssey? Mark Cousins.
Where can I watch The Story of Film: An Odyssey? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
