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15. Cinema Today and the Future
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In the final part of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, movies come full circle. They get more serious after 9/11; Romanian movies come to the fore; Inception turns film into a game. Then the The Story of Film surprises and goes beyond the present, to look at film in the future.
14. New American Independents & the Digital Revolution
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This is the story of the brilliant, flashy, playful movies in the English-speaking world in the 90s. We look at what was new in Tarantino's dialogue and the edge of the Coen brothers. Then we plunge into the digital world to see how it changed the movies forever.
13. New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
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Few saw it coming, but cinema around the world in the 90s entered a golden age. The story starts in Iran, where we meet Abbas Kiarostami, who rethought movie making and made it more real.
12. Fight the Power: Protest in Film
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This is the story of how brave filmmakers spoke truth to power. American independent director John Sayles talks exclusively about these years. In Beijing we discover the blossoming of Chinese cinema before the Tiananmen crackdown.
11. The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
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Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. The Story of Film: Chapter 11 explains how, and then travels to India to show how Bollywood was doing new things in the 70s.
10. Movies to Change the World
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This is the story of the movies that tried to change the world in the 70s. We start in Germany, head to Britain, travel to Italy, see the birth of new Australian cinema, and then arrive in Japan, which was making the most moving films in the world.
9. American Cinema of the 70s
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This is the remarkable story of the maturing of American cinema of the late 60s and 70s. Paul Schrader reveals his thoughts on his existential screenplay for Taxi Driver, Robert Towne explores the dark ideas in Chinatown, and Charles Burnett talks about the birth of Black American cinema.
8. New Directors, New Form
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This is the story of the dazzling 1960s in cinema around the world. As the new wave in cinema sweeps around the world, we discover the films of Roman Polanski, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Nagisa Oshima.
7. European New Wave
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This is the explosive story of film in the late 50s and 60s. We discover how French filmmakers planted a bomb under the movies and see how the new wave it caused swept across Europe.
6. Sex & Melodrama
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This chapter explores the story of sex and melodrama in the movies of the 50s. We discover James Dean, On the Waterfront and the glossy weepies of the time, but also travel to Egypt, India, China, Mexico, Britain and Japan to find that movies there were also full of rage and passion.
5. Post-War Cinema
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an epic journey through the history of cinema. Guided by film historian Mark Cousins, this 15-part love letter to the movies spans from the invention of film in the 19th century to the digital industry of the 21st.
4. The Arrival of Sound
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an epic journey through the history of cinema. Guided by film historian Mark Cousins, this 15-part love letter to the movies spans from the invention of film in the 19th century to the digital industry of the 21st.
3. The Golden Age of World Cinema
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an epic journey through the history of cinema. Guided by film historian Mark Cousins, this 15-part love letter to the movies spans from the invention of film in the 19th century to the digital industry of the 21st.
2. The Hollywood Dream
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an epic journey through the history of cinema. Guided by film historian Mark Cousins, this 15-part love letter to the movies spans from the invention of film in the 19th century to the digital industry of the 21st.
1. Birth of the Cinema
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an epic journey through the history of cinema. Guided by film historian Mark Cousins, this 15-part love letter to the movies spans from the invention of film in the 19th century to the digital industry of the 21st.
