The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Season 1, Episode 1: Birth of the Cinema
Documentary • 63 min • 1 season, 15 episodes • ★ 7.7/10
Episode synopsis
Mark Cousins tells the story of cinema, starting in this episode with the birth of the movies, telling the glamorous, surprising stories of early moviemaking and the first film stars.
About The Story of Film: An Odyssey
A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
More episodes from Season 1
- E2The Hollywood Dream
- E3The Golden Age of World Cinema
- E4The Arrival of Sound
- E5Post-War Cinema
- E6Sex & Melodrama
- E7European New Wave
- E8New Directors, New Form
- E9American Cinema of the 70s
- E10Movies to Change the World
- E11The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
- E12Fight the Power: Protest in Film
- E13New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America