The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Season 1, Episode 8: New Directors, New Form
Documentary • 63 min • 1 season, 15 episodes • ★ 7.7/10
Episode synopsis
The dazzling 1960s in cinema around the world: In Hollywood, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler reveals how documentary influenced mainstream movies. Easy Rider and 2001: A Space Odyssey signal a new era in America cinema. We discover the films of Roman Polanski, Andrei Tarkvosky, and Nagisa Oshima. Black African cinema is born, and we talk exclusively to the Indian master director Mani Kaul.
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
- E5Post-War Cinema
- E6Sex & Melodrama
- E7European New Wave
- 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