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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Birth of the Cinema
- Season 1 The Hollywood Dream
- Season 1 The Golden Age of World Cinema
- Season 1 The Arrival of Sound
- Season 1 Post-War Cinema
- Season 1 Sex & Melodrama
- Season 1 European New Wave
- Season 1 New Directors, New Form
- Season 1 American Cinema of the 70s
- Season 1 Movies to Change the World
- Season 1 The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
- Season 1 Fight the Power: Protest in Film
- Season 1 New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
- Season 1 New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
- Season 1 Cinema Today and the Future
The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Season 1 Episode 5 Post-War Cinema
7.60 60 minutes 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.
