The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a 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.
The series was broadcast in September 2011 on More4, the digital television service of UK broadcaster Channel 4. The Story of Film was also featured in its entirety at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, and it was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in February 2012. It was broadcast in the United States on Turner Classic Movies beginning in September 2013.
The Telegraph headlined the series' initial broadcast in September 2011 as the "cinematic event of the year", describing it as "visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe, it’s at once a love letter to cinema, an unmissable masterclass, and a radical rewriting of movie history." An Irish Times writer called the programme a "landmark" (albeit a "bizarrely underpromoted" one). The program won a Peabody Award in 2013 "for its inclusive, uniquely annotated survey of world cinema history."
In February 2012, A. O. Scott of The New York Times described Cousins' film as "a semester-long film studies survey course compressed into 15 brisk, sometimes contentious hours" that "stands as an invigorated compendium of conventional wisdom." Contrasting the project with its "important precursor (and also, perhaps, an implicit interlocutor)", Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma, Scott commended Cousins' film as "the place from which all future revisionism must start".
Each episode lists the film clips that are featured.
Introduction
Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin
1895-1918: The World Discovers A New Art form or Birth of the Cinema
Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince
The Kiss (1896 film) (a.k.a. May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise
Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter
Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream
Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (a.k.a. The Assassination of the Duc de Guise) (1908) dir. Charles le Bargy and André Calmettes
Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film...
Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh
Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage
Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Singin' in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg
The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton
One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton
Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton
The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman
Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin
Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
Luke's Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach
Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
I Flunked, But... (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
...And the First of its Rebels
Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty
The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad
Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker
The Not Dead (2007) dir. Brian Hill
The Perfect Human (1967) (shown as part of The Five Obstructions) dir. Jørgen Leth
The Five Obstructions (2003) dir. Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim
The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane
Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim
Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich von Stroheim
The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor
The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder
The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles
Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov
Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier
Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
1918-1932: The Great Rebel Filmmakers Around the World
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Raoul Walsh
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Robert and Bertram (1915) dir. Max Mack
The Oyster Princess (1919) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
The Mountain Cat (1921) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
The Marriage Circle (1924) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
La Roue (1923) dir. Abel Gance
Napoléon (1927) dir. Abel Gance
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) dir. Robert Wiene
The Tell-Tale Heart (1928) dir. Charles Klein
The Lodger (1927) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
A Page of Madness (1926) dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
Metropolis (1927) dir. Fritz Lang
The Crowd (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. King Vidor
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) dir. F. W. Murnau
Opus 1 (1921) dir. Walter Ruttmann
Entr'acte (1924) dir. René Clair
Rien que les heures (1926) dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Un Chien Andalou (1929) dir. Luis Buñuel
Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
L'Age d'Or (1930) dir. Luis Buñuel
Kino-Pravda n. 19 (1924) dir. Dziga Vertov
Glumov's Diary (1923) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Battleship Potemkin (1925) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
The Untouchables (1987) dir. Brian De Palma
Arsenal (1929) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
Earth (1930) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
I Was Born, But... (1932) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
Tokyo Story (1953) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
Osaka Elegy (1936) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Mildred Pierce (1945) dir. Michael Curtiz
Romance of the West Chamber (1927) dir. Hou Yao and Minwei Li
Scenes of City Life (1935) dir. Yuan Muzhi
The Goddess (1934) dir. Wu Yonggang
Centre Stage (1992) dir. Stanley Kwan
New Women (1935) dir. Cai Chusheng
The 1930s: The Great American Movie Genres...
Her Dilemma (a.k.a. Confessions of a Co-Ed) (1931) dir. Dudley Murphy
Love Me Tonight (1932) dir. Rouben Mamoulian
The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920) dir. Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
Frankenstein (1931) dir. James Whale
Eyes Without a Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju
Audition (1999) dir. Takashi Miike
The Public Enemy (1931) dir. William A. Wellman
Scarface (1932) dir. Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson
Scarface (1983) dir. Brian De Palma
Seven Samurai (1954) dir. Akira Kurosawa
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) dir. Sergio Leone
The Iron Horse (1924) dir. John Ford
My Darling Clementine (1946) dir. John Ford
Twentieth Century (1934) dir. Howard Hawks
Bringing Up Baby (1938) dir. Howard Hawks
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973) dir. Richard Schickel
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) dir. Winsor McCay
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) dir. Lotte Reiniger
Plane Crazy (1928) dir. Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) dir. David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman
...And the Brilliance of European Film
The Blood of a Poet (1931) dir. Jean Cocteau
Inception (2010) dir. Christopher Nolan
Zéro de conduite (1933) dir. Jean Vigo
If.... (1968) dir. Lindsay Anderson
L'Atalante (1934) dir. Jean Vigo
Le Quai des brumes (1938) dir. Marcel Carné
Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) dir. Marcel Carné
La Règle du jeu (1939) (a.k.a. The Rules of the Game) dir. Jean Renoir
La Grande Illusion (1937) dir. Jean Renoir
Limite (1931) dir. Mário Peixoto
The Adventures of a Good Citizen (1937) dir. Stefan Themerson
Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) dir. Roman Polanski
Das Blaue Licht (1932) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
Triumph of the Will (1935) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
Behind the Scenes of the Filming of the Olympic Games (1937) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
Tiefland (1954) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) dir. Ray Müller
Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Saboteur (1942) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Sabotage (1936) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
The 39 Steps (1935) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Marnie (1964) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Ninotchka (1939) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
Gone with the Wind (1939) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Victor Fleming
1939-1952: The Devastation of War...And a New Movie Language
Rome, Open City (1945) dir. Roberto Rossellini
Stagecoach (1939) dir. John Ford
Directed by John Ford (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Osaka Elegy (1936) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Flesh and the Devil (1926) dir. Clarence Brown
Follow the Boys (1944) dir. A. Edward Sutherland
Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
Me and Orson Welles (2008) dir. Richard Linklater
Chimes at Midnight (1965) dir. Orson Welles
Cabiria (1914) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
The General (1926) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John Huston
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) dir. William Wyler
Code Unknown (2000) dir. Michael Haneke
Sátántangó (1994) dir. Béla Tarr
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) dir. Jean Negulesco
Un Homme et une Femme (1966) dir. Claude Lelouch
Heat (1995) dir. Michael Mann
Raging Bull (1980) dir. Martin Scorsese
Bicycle Thieves (1948) dir. Vittorio De Sica
Pin Up Girl (1944) dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder
Portrait of a 66% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder (1982) dir. Annie Tresgot
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) dir. Fritz Lang
The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks
Rio Bravo (1959) dir. Howard Hawks
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Irvin Kershner
Out of the Past (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur
The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir. Ida Lupino
Little Caesar (1931) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Le Quai des brumes (1938) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Marcel Carné
La Chienne (1931) dir. Jean Renoir
Scarlet Street (1945) dir. Fritz Lang
American Cinema: Film Noir (1995) dir. Alain Klarer
Gun Crazy (1950) dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) dir. Arthur Penn
L.A. Confidential (1997) dir. Curtis Hanson
Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott
The Dark Knight (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan
Siva (1989) dir. Ram Gopal Varma
Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron
71st Academy Awards (1999) dir. Louis J. Horvitz
An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli
The Red Shoes (1948) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Singin' in the Rain (1952) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
Flying Down to Rio (1933) dir. Thornton Freeland
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Indiscreet (1958) dir. Stanley Donen
Two for the Road (1967) dir. Stanley Donen
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Post Haste (1933) dir. Humphrey Jennings
Listen to Britain (1942) dir. Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister
The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed
The True Glory (1945) dir. Carol Reed and Garson Kanin
Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
1953-1957: The Swollen Story: World Cinema Bursting at the Seams
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray
Cairo Station (1958) dir. Youssef Chahine
Paper Flowers (1959) dir. Guru Dutt
Raja Harishchandra (1913) dir. Dadasaheb Phalke
Sant Tukaram (1936) dir. Vishnupant Govind Damle and Sheikh Fattelal
Pather Panchali (1955) dir. Satyajit Ray
Devi (1960) dir. Satyajit Ray
Mother India (1957) dir. Mehboob Khan
Two Stage Sisters (1964) dir. Xie Jin
Ikiru (1952) dir. Akira Kurosawa
Stray Dog (1949) dir. Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai (1954) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Akira Kurosawa
Throne of Blood (1957) dir. Akira Kurosawa
The Godfather (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
The Magnificent Seven (1960) dir. John Sturges
Limite (1931) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Mário Peixoto
Rio 40 Graus (a.k.a. Rio 100 Degrees F.) (1955) dir. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Doña Bárbara (1943) dir. Fernando de Fuentes and Miguel M. Delgado
The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah
La perla (1947) dir. Emilio Fernández
Los Olvidados (1950) dir. Luis Buñuel
All That Heaven Allows (1955) dir. Douglas Sirk
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975) dir. David Helpern
Johnny Guitar (1954) dir. Nicholas Ray
Fireworks (1947) dir. Kenneth Anger
Scorpio Rising (1964) dir. Kenneth Anger
Marty (television show) (1953) dir. Delbert Mann
Marty (1955) dir. Delbert Mann
On the Waterfront (1954) dir. Elia Kazan
Red River (1948) dir. Howard Hawks and Arthur Rosson
Touch of Evil (1958) dir. Orson Welles
The Searchers (1956) dir. John Ford
Vertigo (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Rio Bravo (1959) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Howard Hawks
Great Expectations (1946) dir. David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) dir. David Lean
O Dreamland (1953) dir. Lindsay Anderson
Battleship Potemkin (1925) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
...And God Created Woman (1956) dir. Roger Vadim
1957-1964: The Shock of the New - Modern Filmmaking in Western Europe.
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumière
Summer with Monika (1953) dir. Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman
Winter Light (1963) dir. Ingmar Bergman
Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman
Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson
Au hasard Balthazar (1966) dir. Robert Bresson
Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
Ratcatcher (1999) dir. Lynne Ramsay
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Jacques Tati
Mon Oncle (1956) dir. Jacques Tati
Fellini's Casanova (1976) dir. Federico Fellini
Nights of Cabiria (1957) dir. Federico Fellini
8½ (1963) dir. Federico Fellini
Stardust Memories (1980) dir. Woody Allen
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. Agnès Varda
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais
The 400 Blows (1959) dir. François Truffaut
À bout de souffle (1959) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Life of an American Fireman (1903) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Edwin S. Porter
Arsenal (1929) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
Une femme mariée (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
American Gigolo (1980) dir. Paul Schrader
Accattone (1961) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) dir. Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Sergio Leone
Johnny Guitar (1954) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Nicholas Ray
Senso (1954) dir. Luchino Visconti
Rocco and His Brothers (1960) dir. Luchino Visconti
L'eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
The Passenger (1975) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
The Travelling Players (1975) dir. Theodoros Angelopoulos
The Wheelchair (1960) dir. Marco Ferreri
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Viridiana (1961) dir. Luis Buñuel
I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) dir. Vilgot Sjöman
La Maman et la Putain (1973) dir. Jean Eustache
1965-1969: New Waves - Sweep Around the World.
Ashes and Diamonds (1958) dir. Andrzej Wajda
Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Roman Polanski
Hamlet (1948) dir. Laurence Olivier
Knife in the Water (1962) dir. Roman Polanski
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) dir. Roman Polanski
The Hand (1965) dir. Jiří Trnka
The Fireman's Ball (1967) dir. Miloš Forman
Daisies (1966) dir. Věra Chytilová
The Red and the White (1968) dir. Miklós Jancsó
Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch (2000) dir. Chris Marker
Andrei Rublev (1966) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Nostalghia (1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (1965) dir. Sergei Parajanov
Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Parajanov – Islands (1988) dir. Levon Grigoryan
Boy (1969) dir. Nagisa Oshima
In the Realm of the Senses (1976) dir. Nagisa Oshima
Love and Crime (1969) dir. Teruo Ishii
The Insect Woman (1963) dir. Shōhei Imamura
Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
Nippon Sengoshi - Madamu Onboro No Seikatsu (1970) dir. Shōhei Imamura
Ajantrik (1958) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1975) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
Uski Roti (1970) dir. Mani Kaul
Black God, White Devil (1964) dir. Glauber Rocha
I Am Cuba (1964) dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
The House Is Black (1963) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Forugh Farrokhzad
Black Girl (1966) dir. Ousmane Sembène
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) dir. Karel Reisz
Kes (1969) dir. Ken Loach
A Hard Day's Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
Primary (1960) dir. Robert Drew
Shadows (1959) dir. John Cassavetes
Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
66 Scenes from America (1982) dir. Jørgen Leth
Blow Job (1963) dir. Andy Warhol
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) dir. Mike Nichols
Medium Cool (1969) dir. Haskell Wexler
Easy Rider (1969) dir. Dennis Hopper
Making "The Shining" (1980) dir. Vivian Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Stanley Kubrick
Der Sieger (1922) dir. Walter Ruttmann
1967-1979: New American Cinema.
Duck Soup (1933) dir. Leo McCarey
Artists and Models (1955) dir. Frank Tashlin
Catch 22 (1970) dir. Mike Nichols
Mash (1970) dir. Robert Altman
The Graduate (1967) dir. Mike Nichols
The Fireman's Ball (1967) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Miloš Forman
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) dir. Miloš Forman
The Last Movie (1971) dir. Dennis Hopper
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) dir. Robert Altman
The Conversation (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Mean Streets (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese
Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Raging Bull (1980) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Martin Scorsese
Italianamerican (1974) dir. Martin Scorsese
American Gigolo (1980) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Paul Schrader
Light Sleeper (1992) dir. Paul Schrader
Pickpocket (1959) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Robert Bresson
The Walker (2007) dir. Paul Schrader
The Birth of a Nation (1915) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
Killer of Sheep (1978) dir. Charles Burnett
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Annie Hall (1977) dir. Woody Allen
City Lights (1931) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Charlie Chaplin
Manhattan (1979) dir. Woody Allen
The Last Picture Show (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich
The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) dir. Sam Peckinpah
Badlands (1973) dir. Terrence Malick
Days of Heaven (1978) dir. Terrence Malick
The Mirror (1975) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Cabaret (1972) dir. Bob Fosse
The Godfather (1972) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Chinatown (1974) dir. Roman Polanski
The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John Huston
Jules et Jim (1962) dir. François Truffaut
1969-1979: Radical Directors in the 70s - Make State of the Nation Movies.
Fox and His Friends (1975) (a.k.a. Faustrecht der Freiheit) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
All That Heaven Allows (1955) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Douglas Sirk
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (a.k.a. Angst essen Seele auf) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) (a.k.a. Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Alice in the Cities (1974) (a.k.a. Alice in den Städten) dir. Wim Wenders
An Affair to Remember (1957) dir. Leo McCarey
Gods of the Plague (1970) (a.k.a. Götter der Pest) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978) (a.k.a. Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages) dir. Margarethe von Trotta
Burden of Dreams (1982) dir. Les Blank
Arabian Nights (1974) (a.k.a. Il fiore delle mille e una notte) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Spider's Stratagem (1970) (a.k.a. Strategia del ragno) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
The Conformist (1970) (a.k.a. Il conformista) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
Women in Love (1969) dir. Ken Russell
Performance (1970) dir. Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg
Mean Streets (1973) (introduced in Episode 9) dir. Martin Scorsese
Persona (1966) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Ingmar Bergman
Walkabout (1971) dir. Nicolas Roeg
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir
My Brilliant Career (1979) dir. Gillian Armstrong
Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) dir. Noriaki Tsuchimoto
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987) dir. Kazuo Hara
Black Girl (1966) (a.k.a. La noire de...) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Ousmane Sembène
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) dir. Richard Thorpe
La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1971) dir. Assia Djebar
Xala (1975) dir. Ousmane Sembène
Sinemaabi: A Dialogue with Djibril Diop Mambéty (1997) dir. Beti Ellerson Poulenc
Badou Boy (1970) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
Hyènes (1992) (a.k.a. Hyenas/Ramatou) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
Kaddu Beykat (1975) (a.k.a. Lettre paysanne) dir. Safi Faye
Harvest: 3,000 Years (1976) (a.k.a. Mirt sost shi amit) dir. Haile Gerima
Umut (1970) (a.k.a. Hope) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
Yol (1982) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
The Battle of Chile (1975/1977/1979) (a.k.a. La batalla de Chile) dir. Patricio Guzmán
The Holy Mountain (1973) (a.k.a. La montaña sagrada) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Episode 11 - The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
1970s and Onwards: Innovation in Popular Culture - Around the World.
The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) dir. Li Han-hsiang
A Touch of Zen (1971) dir. King Hu
Enter the Dragon (1973) dir. Robert Clouse
A Better Tomorrow (1986) dir. John Woo
Iron Monkey (1993) dir. Yuen Woo-ping
The Matrix (1999) dir. Lilly Wachowski & Lana Wachowski
Once Upon a Time in China (1991) dir. Tsui Hark
New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) dir. Raymond Lee
Mughal-e-Azam (1960) dir. K. Asif
Devi (1960) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Satyajit Ray
Mausam (1975) dir. Gulzar
Zanjeer (1973) dir. Prakash Mehra
Sholay (1975) dir. Ramesh Sippy
The Message: The Story of Islam (1976) (a.k.a. Mohammad, Messenger of God) dir. Moustapha Akkad
The Making of an Epic: Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) dir. Geoffrey Helman & Christopher Penfold
The Sparrow (1972) dir. Youssef Chahine
The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin
A Guy Named Joe (1943) dir. Victor Fleming
Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg
The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1995) dir. Laurent Bouzereau
Vertigo (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) dir. Steven Spielberg
Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. George Lucas
The Hidden Fortress (1958) dir. Akira Kurosawa
Triumph of the Will (1935) (a.k.a. Triumph des Willens) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
The 1980s: Moviemaking and Protest - Around the World.
The Horse Thief (1988) dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
Yellow Earth (1985) dir. Chen Kaige
Raise the Red Lantern (1991) dir. Zhang Yimou
House of Flying Daggers (2004) dir. Zhang Yimou
Repentance (1984) dir. Tengiz Abuladze
Arsenal (1929) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
Come and See (1985) dir. Elem Klimov
Long Goodbyes (1971) dir. Kira Muratova
A Short Film About Killing (1988) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
Psycho (1960) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Wend Kuuni (1983) dir. Gaston Kaboré
Yeelen (1987) dir. Souleymane Cissé
Video Killed the Radio Star (1979) (music video) dir. Russell Mulcahy
Flashdance (1983) dir. Adrian Lyne
Top Gun (1986) dir. Tony Scott
Blue Velvet (1986) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. David Lynch
The Elephant Man (1980) dir. David Lynch
Do the Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee
The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed (introduced in Episode 5)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980) dir. John Sayles
Subway (1985) dir. Luc Besson
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) dir. Leos Carax
An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli (introduced in Episode 5)
Labyrinth of Passion (1982) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
A Hard Day's Night (1964) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Richard Lester
The Quince Tree Sun (1992) dir. Víctor Erice
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) dir. Stephen Frears
My Childhood (1972) dir. Bill Douglas
Gregory's Girl (1981) dir. Bill Forsyth
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) dir. Terence Davies
Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith (introduced in Episode 1)
Young at Heart (1954) dir. Gordon Douglas
A Zed & Two Noughts (1986) dir. Peter Greenaway
The Last of England (1988) dir. Derek Jarman
Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg
Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg
Neighbours (1952) dir. Norman McLaren
Jesus of Montreal (1989) dir. Denys Arcand
1990-1998: The Last Days of Celluloid - Before the Coming of Digital.
The Apple (1998) dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
A Moment of Innocence (1996) dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
And Life Goes On (1991) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Through the Olive Trees (1994) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Days of Being Wild (1990) dir. Wong Kar-wai
In the Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-wai
Irma Vep (1996) dir. Olivier Assayas
A City of Sadness (1989) dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Tokyo Story (1953) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
Vive L'Amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming-liang
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Videodrome (1983) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. David Cronenberg
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
La Roue (1923) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Abel Gance
Ringu (1998) dir. Hideo Nakata
The Exorcist (1973) (introduced in Episode 11) dir. William Friedkin
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Audition (1999) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Takashi Miike
Breaking the Waves (1996) dir. Lars von Trier
Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999) dir. Tom Fontana
Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier (introduced in Episode 2)
La Haine (1995) dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Do the Right Thing (1989) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. Spike Lee
Humanité (1999) dir. Bruno Dumont
Rosetta (1999) dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Touki Bouki (1973) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
Beau travail (1999) dir. Claire Denis
Late Spring (1949) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
Crows (1994) dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska
Wednesday (1997) dir. Victor Kossakovsky
24 Realities a Second (2004) dir. Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor
Code Unknown (2000) (a.k.a. Code inconnu) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Michael Haneke
Funny Games (1997) dir. Michael Haneke
Persona (1966) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Ingmar Bergman
The 1990s: The First Days of Digital - Reality Losing Its Realness in America and Australia.
Gladiator (2000) dir. Ridley Scott
Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) dir. James Cameron
Anchors Aweigh (1945) dir. George Sidney
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Winsor McCay
Jurassic Park (1993) (introduced in Episode 11) dir. Steven Spielberg
Titanic (1997) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. James Cameron
Toy Story (1995) dir. John Lasseter
The Blair Witch Project (1999) dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
House of Flying Daggers (2004) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. Zhang Yimou
Goodfellas (1990) dir. Martin Scorsese
The Great Train Robbery (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
The Killers (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak
Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs (1992) dir. Quentin Tarantino
City on Fire (1987) dir. Ringo Lam
Bande à Part (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Natural Born Killers (1994) dir. Oliver Stone
Miller's Crossing (1990) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
The Big Lebowski (1998) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant
The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
Elephant (2003) dir. Gus Van Sant
Elephant (1989) dir. Alan Clarke
Gerry (2002) dir. Gus Van Sant
Sátántangó (1994) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Béla Tarr
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman
Last Days (2005) dir. Gus Van Sant
Psycho (1960) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho (1998) dir. Gus Van Sant
Cremaster 3 (2002) dir. Matthew Barney
Safety Last! (1923) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
RoboCop (1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven
Starship Troopers (1997) dir. Paul Verhoeven
An Angel at My Table (1990) dir. Jane Campion
The Piano (1993) dir. Jane Campion
Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann
Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann
Episode 15 - Cinema Today and the Future
2000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle - and the Future of Movies.
Swiss Miss (1938) dir. John G. Blystone and Hal Roach
Blonde Venus (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumière
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) dir. Michael Moore
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) dir. Paul Greengrass
Être et avoir (2002) dir. Nicolas Philibert
Zidane - A Portrait in the 21st Century (2006) dir. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) dir. Andrew Dominik
Way Down East (1920) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
Climates (2006) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) dir. Cristi Puiu
The Headless Woman (2008) dir. Lucrecia Martel
Battle in Heaven (2005) dir. Carlos Reygadas
Oasis (2002) dir. Lee Chang-Dong
Memories of Murder (2003) dir. Bong Joon-ho
Oldboy (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook
Le Voyage dans la lune (1902) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Georges Méliès (Although Mark Cousins and the title on the screen indicate that the scene being shown is from La lune à un mètre, the scene is actually from Le Voyage dans la lune.
Mulholland Dr. (2001) dir. David Lynch
Requiem for a Dream (2000) dir. Darren Aronofsky
Songs from the Second Floor (2000) dir. Roy Andersson
Way Out West (1937) dir. James W. Horne
Indiscreet (1958) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Stanley Donen
Rules of Attraction (2002) dir. Roger Avary
Avatar (2009) dir. James Cameron
Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas
Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Mother and Son (1997) dir. Alexander Sokurov
Russian Ark (2002) dir. Alexander Sokurov
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (2003) dir. Knut Elstermann
Epilogue the Year 2046
Inception (2010) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Christopher Nolan
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry
