The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011 · Miniseries · TV-PG · 60 min · ★ 7.7
This documentary miniseries takes a worldwide tour through the history of cinema, tracing how movies evolved through key innovations, styles, and influential works. Across many episodes, it highlights both famous classics and lesser-known international films, using interviews and plentiful clips to show how ideas spread and changed over time.
Also known as Elokuvan tarina · The Story Of Film: An Odyssey 1 + 2 · Historien om film
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Details
- Years
- 2011
- Release date
- 2011-09-03
- Network
- Channel 4
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-PG
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Max quality
- SD
- TMDB rating
- 7.7/10 (64 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a long, globe-spanning film-history deep dive that spotlights international titles as much as famous classics; Not for you if you’re sensitive to distinctive narration or want a lighter, nature-style watch like The Blue Planet.
Pros: wide-ranging film history; global perspective; lots of clips | Cons: narration style divisive; strongly opinionated takes; uneven focus choices
Themes
- cinema history
Cast & crew
Mark Cousins
as Presenter / Narrator
Mario Cordova
as Narratore
- AM
Agnes de Mille
as Self
- CC
Claude Cardinale
as Self
- LT
Lars von Trier
as Self
- PS
Paul Schrader
as Self
- AS
Aleksandr Sokurov
as Self
- NL
Norman Lloyd
as Self
- JC
Jane Campion
as Self
Sam Neill
as Self
Directed by Mark Cousins
Created by Mark Cousins
Episodes1 season · 15 episodes
Season 115 episodes
- S1E1Birth of the Cinema63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E2The Hollywood Dream63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E3The Golden Age of World Cinema63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E4The Arrival of Sound63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E5Post-War Cinema63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E6Sex & Melodrama63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E7European New Wave63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E8New Directors, New Form63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E9American Cinema of the 70s62mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E10Movies to Change the World63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E11The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E12Fight the Power: Protest in Film63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E13New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America63mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E14New American Independents & The Digital Revolution64mAmazon Prime VideoTubi
- S1E15Cinema Today and the Future64mAmazon Prime VideoTubi