The Story of Film: An Odyssey

1. Birth of the Cinema

The first two decades of cinema, 1895-1918; its invention in New Jersey and L...

2. The Hollywood Dream

1918-1928; the establishment of Hollywood as an industry that produced optimi...

3. The Golden Age of World Cinema

1918-1932, the great rebel filmmakers around the world. Novel and remarkable ...

4. The Arrival of Sound

The Story of Film looks at the films of the 1930s and the development of "tal...

5. Post-War Cinema

The Story of Film examines world cinema in the period of 1939-1952 looks at f...

6. Sex & Melodrama

The Story of Film examines cinema in the period of 1953-1957. It looks at the...

7. European New Wave

The Story of Film examines European cinema in the period of 1957-1964. It fir...

8. New Directors, New Form

The Story of Film examines world cinema in the period of 1965-1969 when New W...

10. Movies to Change the World

The Story of Film examines world cinema in the period of 1969-1979. It looks ...

11. The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream

The Story of Film: An Odyssey looks at the development of mainstream film in ...

12. Fight the Power: Protest in Film

The Story of Film looks at cinema of the 1980s and examines how directors use...

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

The Story of Film looks at world cinema in the period of 1990-1998 the waning...

14. New American Independents & the Digital Revolution

The Story of Film looks at American and Australia cinema in the 1990s and exa...

15. Cinema Today and the Future

The Story of Film looks at film in the 2000's and considers innovations that ...