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Released: 3rd Sep, 2011

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Season 1 Episodes

S01 Episode 1

Birth of the Cinema (1900-1920)

Explores the birth of the great new art form of movies, revealing how ideas and passion have always driven film, more than money and marketing.

1 h 1 mins  ·  Sat, 3 Sep 2011

S01 Episode 2

The Hollywood Dream (1920s)

The story of movies during the roaring 20s, where stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton emerged.

1 h 1 mins  ·  Sat, 10 Sep 2011

S01 Episode 3

Expressionism, Impressionism, and Surrealism: Golden Age of World Cinema

Explores Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Shanghai, and Tokyo, the places where movie makers pushed the boundaries of the medium amid the passionate new film movements of the 1920s.

1 h 1 mins  ·  Sat, 17 Sep 2011

S01 Episode 4

The Arrival of Sound (1930s)

Revisits the birth of new types of film: screwball comedies, gangster pictures, horror films, westerns and musicals, and discovers the master of most of them, Howard Hawks.

1 h 1 mins  ·  Sat, 24 Sep 2011

S01 Episode 5

Post-War Cinema (1940s)

Explores how the trauma of war made cinema more daring, including the beginnings in Italy, Hollywood, Orson Welles, and the drama of the McCarthy era.

1 h 1 mins  ·  Sat, 24 Sep 2011

S01 Episode 6

Sex & Melodrama

A look at James Dean, On the Waterfront, and the glossy weepies of the period, as well as travelling to Egypt, India, China, Mexico, Britain, and Japan, where movies were also full of rage and passion.

1 h 1 mins  ·  Sat, 8 Oct 2011

S01 Episode 7

European New Wave

The great movie star Claudia Cardinale talks exclusively about Federico Fellini; in Denmark, Lars von Trier describes his admiration for Ingmar Bergman, and Bernardo Bertolucci remembers his work with Pier Paolo Pasolini.

1 h 1 mins  ·  Sat, 15 Oct 2011

S01 Episode 8

New Directors, New Form

In Hollywood, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler reveals how documentary influenced mainstream movies; Easy Rider and 2001: A Space Odyssey begin a new era in America cinema, and Black African cinema is born.

1 h 1 mins  ·  Sat, 22 Oct 2011

S01 Episode 9

American Cinema of the 70s

The remarkable story of the maturing American cinema of the late 60s and 70s; Buck Henry, who wrote The Graduate, talks about movie satire of the time; in New York, Paul Schrader reveals his thoughts on his existential screenplay for Taxi Driver.

1 h 1 mins  ·  Sat, 29 Oct 2011

S01 Episode 10

Movies to Change the World

The story of the movies that tried to change the world in the 1970s, looking at groundbreaking work in Germany, Britain, Italy, Australia, and Japan.

1 h 2 mins  ·  Sat, 29 Oct 2011

S01 Episode 11

The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream

A look at how Star Wars, Jaws, and The Exorcist were innovative in the 1970s; Amitabh Bachchan shows how Bollywood was doing new things at the same time; Master Yuen Wo Ping talks exclusively about his action movies.

1 h 2 mins  ·  Sat, 12 Nov 2011

S01 Episode 12

Fight the Power: Protest in Film

With Ronald Reagan in the White House and Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, the 1980s was a decade of protest in the movies. American independent director John Sayles talks exclusively about these years.

1 h 2 mins  ·  Sat, 19 Nov 2011

S01 Episode 13

New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America

Cinema around the world entered a golden age in the 90s. Iran, Japan, France, and Mexico are all examined.

1 h 2 mins  ·  Sat, 26 Nov 2011

S01 Episode 14

New American Independents & the Digital Revolution

Explores English-language films of the 90s, from Starship Troopers to Romeo & Juliet, with interviews with writers and directors.

1 h 2 mins  ·  Sat, 3 Dec 2011

S01 Episode 15

Cinema Today and the Future

After September 11, 2001, films take a more serious note; an interview with Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov.

1 h 2 mins  ·  Sat, 10 Dec 2011

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