Name: The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Released: 2011-09-03T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Mark Cousins, Mark Cousins, Juan Diego Botto

TV Show · Documentary · History

2011 British documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of over 900 minutes. It was directed and narrated by Mark Cousins, a film critic from Northern Ireland, based on his 2004 book The Story of Film.

2011 · 1h 4m

Starring Mark Cousins, Mark Cousins, Juan Diego Botto

Director Mark Cousins

EPISODE 1

In the Beginning

How cinema was born - the story of the very first movie stars, close-ups and special effects, and travels to Hollywood to show how it became a myth.
EPISODE 2

The Triumph of American Film 1918 - 1928

The movies in the roaring twenties, when Hollywood became a glittering entertainment industry, and star directors such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton emerged.
EPISODE 3

The Great Rebel Filmakers Around the World

The 1920s was the golden age for world cinema when movie makers were pushing the boundaries of the medium and the emergence of passionate new film movements.
EPISODE 4

The 1930s The Great American Movie Genres And the Brilliance of European Film

The arrival of sound in the 1930s that changed everything for cinema and the birth of new types of film: screwball comedies, gangster pictures, horror films, westerns and musicals.
EPISODE 5

The Devastation of War and a New Movie Language

How the trauma of war made cinema more daring. The story starts in Italy, and moves to Hollywood, from Orson Welles to the darkening of American film and the drama of the McCarthy era.
EPISODE 6

The Swollen Story: World Cinema Bursting at the Seams

The story of sex and melodrama in the movies of the 50s. From James Dean in On the Waterfront and the glossy weepies of the period, but also travels to Egypt, India, China, Mexico, Britain and Japan, where movies were also full of rage and passion.