The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Season 1, Episode 5: Post-War Cinema
Documentary • 63 min • 1 season, 15 episodes • ★ 7.7/10
Episode synopsis
Mark Cousins explores how the trauma of war led to more daring creations for cinema, focusing on the darkening of American film and the drama of the McCarthy years. Screenwriters Paul Schrader and Robert Towne discuss the era and Stanley Donen - director of Singin' in the Rain - talks about his career.
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
- E1Birth of the Cinema
- E2The Hollywood Dream
- E3The Golden Age of World Cinema
- E4The Arrival of Sound
- 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