The Story of Film: An Odyssey

BIRTH OF THE CINEMA (1900-1920): The opening of The Story of Film: An Odyssey shows the birth of a g...

THE HOLLYWOOD DREAM (1920s). This is the fascinating story of the movies in the roaring 20s. We see ...

The Golden Age Of World Cinema (1920s): The 1920s were a golden age for world cinema. In this part, ...

THE ARRIVAL OF SOUND (1930s): In chapter 4, we see how the coming of sound in the 1930s upended ever...

Post-War Cinema (1940s): This chapter of The Story of Film shows how the trauma of war made cinema m...

Sex & Melodrama (1950s): This chapter explores the story of sex and melodrama in the movies of the 5...

European New Wave (1960s): This is the explosive story of film in the late 50s and 60s. We discover ...

New Directors, New Form (1960s): This is the story of the dazzling 1960s in cinema around the world....

American Cinema of the ‘70s: This is the remarkable story of the maturing of American cinema of th...

Movies To Change The World (1970s): This is the story of the movies that tried to change the world i...

The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream (1970s): Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created th...

Fight The Power: Protest in Film (1980s): This is the story of how brave filmmakers spoke truth to p...

New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia, Latin America (1990s): Few saw it coming, but cinema a...

New American Independents & The Digital Revolution (1990s): This is the story of the brilliant, flas...

Cinema Today and The Future (2000s): In the final part of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, movies come...