• List of episodes
  • 1895-1918: The World Discovers - A New Artform.
  • 1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film - and the First of Its Rebels
  • 1918-1932: The Great Rebel Filmmakers - Around the World
  • The 1930s: The Great American Movie Genres - and the Brilliance of European Films
  • 1939-1952: The Devastation of War - and a New Movie Language
  • 1953-1957: The Swollen Story - World Cinema Bursting at the Seams
  • 1957-1964: The Shock of the New - Modern Filmmaking In Western Europe
  • 1965-1969: New Waves - Sweep Around the World
  • 1967-1979: New American Cinema
  • 1969-1979: Radical Directors in the 70s - Make State of the Nation Movies
  • 1970s and Onwards: Innovation in Popular Culture - Around the World
  • The 1980s: Moviemaking and Protest - Around the World
  • 1990-1998: The Last Days of Celluloid - Before the Coming of Digital
  • The 1990s: The First Days of Digital - Reality Losing Its Realness in America and Australia
  • 2000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle - and the Future of Movies
  • Film clips shown

Episode 1 Introduction

  • Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
  • Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
  • The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
  • Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin
  • 1895-1918: The World Discovers A New Artform
  • Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince
  • The Kiss (1896 film) (aka May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
  • Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
  • Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
  • Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise
  • Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
  • What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter
  • Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
  • La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
  • The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
  • Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
  • The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
  • October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
  • The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
  • Thrill Becomes Story
  • Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
  • Sherlock, Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
  • The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
  • The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (aka The Assassination of the Duc de Guise) (1908) dir. Charles le Bargy and André Calmettes
  • Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
  • Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
  • The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
  • Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
  • Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
  • The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
  • Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
  • Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
  • Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
  • The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Seastrom
  • Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
  • Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
  • Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Souls on the Road (aka Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata

Episode 21918-1928: The Triumph of American Film...

  • Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles and Gregg Toland
  • The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh
  • Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage
  • Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
  • Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  • Singin' in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
  • The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton
  • One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
  • Sherlock, Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton
  • Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
  • Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton
  • The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
  • Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman
  • Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
  • City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
  • The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin
  • Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
  • The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin
  • Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
  • Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
  • Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
  • Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
  • Luke's Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
  • Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach
  • Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
  • Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
  • I Flunked, But... (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • ..And the First of its Rebels
  • Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty
  • The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad
  • Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker
  • Punk's Not Dead (2007) dir. Susan Dynner
  • The Perfect Human (1967) (shown as part of The Five Obstructions) dir. Jørgen Leth
  • The Five Obstructions (2003) dir. Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
  • Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim
  • The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane
  • Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim
  • Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
  • Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich von Stroheim
  • The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor
  • The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder
  • The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles
  • Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov
  • Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier
  • Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Episode 31918-1935: The Great Rebel Filmmakers Around the World

  • The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Raoul Walsh
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Robert and Bertram (1915) dir. Max Mack
  • The Oyster Princess (1919) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • The Mountain Cat (1921) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • The Marriage Circle (1924) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • La Roue (1923) dir. Abel Gance
  • Napoléon (1927) dir. Abel Gance
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) dir. Robert Wiene
  • The Tell-Tale Heart (1928) dir. Charles Klein
  • The Lodger (1927) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • A Page of Madness (1926) dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
  • Metropolis (1927) dir. Fritz Lang
  • The Crowd (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. King Vidor
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) dir. F. W. Murnau
  • Opus 1 (1921) dir. Walter Ruttmann
  • Entr'acte (1924) dir. René Clair
  • Rien que les heures (1926) dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
  • Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Un Chien Andalou (1929) dir. Luis Buñuel
  • Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
  • L'Age d'Or (1930) dir. Luis Buñuel
  • Kino-Pravda n. 19 (1924) dir. Dziga Vertov
  • Glumov's Diary (1923) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
  • The Untouchables (1987) dir. Brian De Palma
  • Arsenal (1928) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
  • Earth (1930) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
  • I Was Born, But... (1932) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • Tokyo Story (1953) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman
  • The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • Osaka Elegy (1936) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles and Gregg Toland
  • Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Mildred Pierce (1945) dir. Michael Curtiz
  • Romance of the West Chamber (1927) dir. Hou Yao and Minwei Li
  • Scenes of City Life (1935) dir. Yuan Muzhi
  • The Goddess (1934) dir. Wu Yonggang
  • Centre Stage (1992) dir. Stanley Kwan
  • New Women (1935) dir. Cai Chusheng

Episode 4 The 1930s: The Great American Movie Genres...

  • Her Dilemma (aka Confessions of a Co-Ed) (1931) dir. Dudley Murphy
  • Love Me Tonight (1930) dir. Rouben Mamoulian
  • The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920) dir. Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
  • Frankenstein (1931) dir. James Whale
  • Eyes Without a Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju
  • Audition (1999) dir. Takashi Miike
  • The Public Enemy (1931) dir. William A. Wellman
  • Scarface (1932) dir. Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson
  • Scarface (1983) dir. Brian De Palma
  • Seven Samurai (1954) dir. Akira Kurosawa
  • Once Upon a Time in America (1984) dir. Sergio Leone
  • The Iron Horse (1924) dir. John Ford
  • My Darling Clementine (1946) dir. John Ford
  • Twentieth Century (1934) dir. Howard Hawks
  • Bringing Up Baby (1938) dir. Howard Hawks
  • The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973) dir. Richard Schickel
  • Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  • Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) dir. Winsor McCay
  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) dir. Lotte Reiniger
  • Plane Crazy (1928) dir. Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) dir. David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen
  • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman
  • ..And the Brilliance of European Film
  • The Blood of a Poet (1931) dir. Jean Cocteau
  • Inception (2010) dir. Christopher Nolan
  • Zéro de conduite (1933) dir. Jean Vigo
  • If.... (1968) dir. Lindsay Anderson
  • L'Atalante (1934) dir. Jean Vigo
  • Le Quai des brumes (1938) dir. Marcel Carné
  • Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) dir. Marcel Carné
  • La Règle du jeu (1939) (aka The Rules of the Game) dir. Jean Renoir
  • La Grande Illusion (1937) dir. Jean Renoir
  • Limite (1931) dir. Mário Peixoto
  • The Adventures of a Good Citizen (1937) dir. Stefan Themerson
  • Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) dir. Roman Polanski
  • Das Blaue Licht (1932) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
  • Triumph of the Will (1935) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
  • Behind the Scenes of the Filming of the Olympic Games (1937) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
  • Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
  • Tiefland (1954) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
  • The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) dir. Ray Müller
  • Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Saboteur (1942) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Sabotage (1936) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • The 39 Steps (1935) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Marnie (1964) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Ninotchka (1939) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
  • Gone with the Wind (1939) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Victor Fleming

Episode 51939-1952: The Devastation of War...And a New Movie Language

  • Rome, Open City (1945) dir. Roberto Rossellini
  • Stagecoach (1939) dir. John Ford
  • Directed by John Ford (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich
  • Osaka Elegy (1936) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Flesh and the Devil (1926) dir. Clarence Brown
  • Follow the Boys (1944) dir. A. Edward Sutherland
  • Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles and Gregg Toland
  • Me and Orson Welles (2008) dir. Richard Linklater
  • Chimes at Midnight (1965) dir. Orson Welles
  • Cabiria (1914) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
  • Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • The General (1926) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John Huston
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) dir. William Wyler
  • Code Unknown (2000) dir. Michael Haneke
  • Sátántangó (1994) dir. Béla Tarr
  • How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) dir. Jean Negulesco
  • Un Homme et une Femme (1966) dir. Claude Lelouch
  • Heat (1995) dir. Michael Mann
  • Raging Bull (1980) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Bicycle Thieves (1948) dir. Vittorio De Sica
  • Pin Up Girl (1944) dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
  • Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder
  • Portrait of a 66% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder (1982) dir. Annie Tresgot
  • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) dir. Fritz Lang
  • The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks
  • Rio Bravo (1959) dir. Howard Hawks
  • Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Irvin Kershner
  • Out of the Past (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur
  • The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir. Ida Lupino
  • Little Caesar (1931) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  • Le Quai des brumes (1938) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Marcel Carné
  • La Chienne (1931) dir. Jean Renoir
  • Scarlet Street (1945) dir. Fritz Lang
  • American Cinema: Film Noir (1995) dir. Alain Klarer
  • Gun Crazy (1950) dir. Joseph H. Lewis
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967) dir. Arthur Penn
  • L.A. Confidential (1997) dir. Curtis Hanson
  • Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott
  • The Dark Knight (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan
  • Shiva (2006) dir. Ram Gopal Varma
  • Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron
  • 71st Academy Awards (1999) dir. Louis J. Horvitz
  • An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli
  • The Red Shoes (1948) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
  • Singin' in the Rain (1952) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
  • Flying Down to Rio (1933) dir. Thornton Freeland
  • Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  • Indiscreet (1958) dir. Stanley Donen
  • Two for the Road (1967) dir. Stanley Donen
  • A Matter of Life and Death (1946) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
  • Post Haste (1933) dir. Humphrey Jennings
  • Listen to Britain (1942) dir. Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister
  • The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed
  • The True Glory (1945) dir. Carol Reed and Garson Kanin
  • Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese

Episode 61953-1957: The Swollen Story: World Cinema Bursting at the Seams

  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray
  • Cairo Station (1958) dir. Youssef Chahine
  • Paper Flowers (1959) dir. Guru Dutt
  • Raja Harishchandra (1913) dir. Dadasaheb Phalke
  • Sant Tukaram (1936) dir. Vishnupant Govind Damle and Sheikh Fattelal
  • Pather Panchali (1955) dir. Satyajit Ray
  • Devi (1960) dir. Satyajit Ray
  • Mother India (1957) dir. Mehboob Khan
  • Two Stage Sisters (1964) dir. Xie Jin
  • Ikiru (1952) dir. Akira Kurosawa
  • Stray Dog (1949) dir. Akira Kurosawa
  • Seven Samurai (1954) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Akira Kurosawa
  • Throne of Blood (1957) dir. Akira Kurosawa
  • The Godfather (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  • The Magnificent Seven (1960) dir. John Sturges
  • Limite (1931) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Mário Peixoto
  • Rio 40 Graus (aka Rio 100 Degrees F.) (1955) dir. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
  • Doña Bárbara (1943) dir. Fernando de Fuentes and Miguel M. Delgado
  • The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah
  • La perla (1947) dir. Emilio Fernández
  • Los Olvidados (1950) dir. Luis Buñuel
  • All That Heaven Allows (1955) dir. Douglas Sirk
  • I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975) dir. David Helpern
  • Johnny Guitar (1954) dir. Nicholas Ray
  • Fireworks (1947) dir. Kenneth Anger
  • Scorpio Rising (1964) dir. Kenneth Anger
  • Marty (television show) (1953) dir. Delbert Mann
  • Marty (1955) dir. Delbert Mann
  • On the Waterfront (1954) dir. Elia Kazan
  • Red River (1948) dir. Howard Hawks and Arthur Rosson
  • Touch of Evil (1958) dir. Orson Welles
  • The Searchers (1956) dir. John Ford
  • Vertigo (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Rio Bravo (1959) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Howard Hawks
  • Great Expectations (1946) dir. David Lean
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962) dir. David Lean
  • O Dreamland (1953) dir. Lindsay Anderson
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
  • ..And God Created Woman (1956) dir. Roger Vadim

Episode 71957-1964: The Shock of the New - Modern Filmmaking in Western Europe.

  • Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumière
  • Summer with Monika (1953) dir. Ingmar Bergman
  • The Seventh Seal (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman
  • Winter Light (1963) dir. Ingmar Bergman
  • Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman
  • Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson
  • Au hasard Balthazar (1966) dir. Robert Bresson
  • Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Ratcatcher (1999) dir. Lynne Ramsay
  • Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
  • Mon Oncle (1956) dir. Jacques Tati
  • Fellini's Casanova (1976) dir. Federico Fellini
  • Nights of Cabiria (1957) dir. Federico Fellini
  • 8½ (1963) dir. Federico Fellini
  • Stardust Memories (1980) dir. Woody Allen
  • Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. Agnès Varda
  • Last Year at Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais
  • The 400 Blows (1959) dir. François Truffaut
  • À bout de souffle (1959) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Life of an American Fireman (1903) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Edwin S. Porter
  • Arsenal (1929) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
  • Une femme mariée (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • American Gigolo (1980) dir. Paul Schrader
  • Accattone (1961) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • A Fistful of Dollars (1964) dir. Sergio Leone
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
  • Johnny Guitar (1954) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Nicholas Ray
  • Senso (1954) dir. Luchino Visconti
  • Rocco and His Brothers (1960) dir. Luchino Visconti
  • L'eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • The Passenger (1975) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • The Travelling Players (1975) dir. Theodoros Angelopoulos
  • The Wheelchair (1960) dir. Marco Ferreri
  • What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Viridiana (1961) dir. Luis Buñuel
  • I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) dir. Vilgot Sjöman
  • La Maman et la Putain (1973) dir. Jean Eustache

Episode 81965-1969: New Waves - Sweep Around the World.

  • Ashes and Diamonds (1958) dir. Andrzej Wajda
  • Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) dir. Roman Polanski
  • Hamlet (1948) dir. Laurence Olivier
  • Knife in the Water (1962) dir. Roman Polanski
  • The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) dir. Roman Polanski
  • The Hand (1965) dir. Jiří Trnka
  • The Fireman's Ball (1967) dir. Miloš Forman
  • Daisies (1966) dir. Věra Chytilová
  • The Red and the White (1968) dir. Miklós Jancsó
  • Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch (2000) dir. Chris Marker
  • Andrei Rublev (1966) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Nostalghia (1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (1965) dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Parajanov – Islands (1988) dir. Levon Grigoryan
  • Boy (1969) dir. Nagisa Oshima
  • In the Realm of the Senses (1976) dir. Nagisa Oshima
  • Love and Crime (1969) dir. Teruo Ishii
  • The Insect Woman (1963) dir. Shōhei Imamura
  • Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles
  • Nippon Sengoshi - Madamu Onboro No Seikatsu (1970) dir. Shōhei Imamura
  • Ajantrik (1958) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
  • The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
  • Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1975) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
  • Uski Roti (1970) dir. Mani Kaul
  • Black God, White Devil (1964) dir. Glauber Rocha
  • I Am Cuba (1964) dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
  • The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forugh Farrokhzad
  • Black Girl (1969) dir. Ousmane Sembène
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) dir. Karel Reisz
  • Kes (1969) dir. Ken Loach
  • A Hard Day's Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
  • Primary (1960) dir. Robert Drew
  • Shadows (1959) dir. John Cassavetes
  • Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • 66 Scenes from America (1982) dir. Jørgen Leth
  • Blow Job (1963) dir. Andy Warhol
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) dir. Mike Nichols
  • Medium Cool (1969) dir. Haskell Wexler
  • Easy Rider (1969) dir. Dennis Hopper
  • Making "The Shining" (1980) dir. Vivian Kubrick
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
  • Der Sieger (1922) dir. Walter Ruttmann

Episode 91967-1979: New American Cinema.

  • Duck Soup (1933) dir. Leo McCarey
  • Artists and Models (1955) dir. Frank Tashlin
  • Catch 22 (1970) dir. Mike Nichols
  • Mash (1970) dir. Robert Altman
  • The Graduate (1967) dir. Mike Nichols
  • The Fireman's Ball (1967) dir. Miloš Forman
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) dir. Miloš Forman
  • The Last Movie (1971) dir. Dennis Hopper
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) dir. Robert Altman
  • The Conversation (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  • Mean Streets (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Raging Bull (1980) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Italianamerican (1974) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • American Gigolo (1980) dir. Paul Schrader
  • Light Sleeper (1992) dir. Paul Schrader
  • Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson
  • The Walker (2007) dir. Paul Schrader
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Killer of Sheep (1977) dir. Charles Burnett
  • The Shop Around the Corner (1940) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • Annie Hall (1977) dir. Woody Allen
  • City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
  • Manhattan (1979) dir. Woody Allen
  • The Last Picture Show (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich
  • The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah
  • Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) dir. Sam Peckinpah
  • Badlands (1973) dir. Terrence Malick
  • Days of Heaven (1978) dir. Terrence Malick
  • The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Cabaret (1972) dir. Bob Fosse
  • The Godfather (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  • Chinatown (1974) dir. Roman Polanski
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John Huston
  • Jules et Jim (1962) dir. François Truffaut

Episode 101969-1979: Radical Directors in the 70s - Make State of the Nation Movies.

  • Fox and His Friends (1975) (aka Faustrecht der Freiheit) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • All That Heaven Allows (1955) dir. Douglas Sirk
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (aka Angst essen Seele auf) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) (aka Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Alice in the Cities (1974) (aka Alice in den Städten) dir. Wim Wenders
  • An Affair to Remember (1957) dir. Leo McCarey
  • Gods of the Plague (1970) (aka Götter der Pest) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978) (aka Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages) dir. Margarethe von Trotta
  • Burden of Dreams (1982) dir. Les Blank
  • Arabian Nights (1974) (aka Il fiore delle mille e una notte) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • The Spider's Stratagem (1970) (aka Strategia del ragno) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • The Conformist (1970) (aka Il conformista) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Women in Love (1969) dir. Ken Russell
  • Performance (1970) dir. Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg
  • Mean Streets (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman
  • Walkabout (1971) dir. Nicolas Roeg
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir
  • My Brilliant Career (1979) dir. Gillian Armstrong
  • Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) dir. Noriaki Tsuchimoto
  • The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987) dir. Kazuo Hara
  • Black Girl (1966) (aka La noire de...) dir. Ousmane Sembène
  • Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) dir. Richard Thorpe
  • La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1971) dir. Assia Djebar
  • Xala (1975) dir. Ousmane Sembène
  • Sinemaabi: A Dialogue with Djibril Diop Mambéty (1997) dir. Beti Ellerson Poulenc
  • Badou Boy (1970) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
  • Hyenas (1992) (aka Hyènes/Ramatou) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
  • Kaddu Beykat (1975) (aka Lettre paysanne) dir. Safi Faye
  • Harvest: 3,000 Years (1976) (aka Mirt sost shi amit) dir. Haile Gerima
  • Hope (1970) (aka Umit) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
  • Yol (1982) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
  • The Battle of Chile (1975/1977/1979) (aka La batalla de Chile) dir. Patricio Guzmán
  • The Holy Mountain (1973) (aka La montaña sagrada) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Episode 111970s and Onwards: Innovation in Popular Culture - Around the World.

  • The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) dir. Li Han-hsiang
  • A Touch of Zen (1971) dir. King Hu
  • Enter the Dragon (1973) dir. Robert Clouse
  • A Better Tomorrow (1986) dir. John Woo
  • Iron Monkey (1993) dir. Yuen Woo-ping
  • The Matrix (1999) dir. Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski
  • Once Upon a Time in China (1991) dir. Tsui Hark
  • New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) dir. Raymond Lee
  • Mughal-e-Azam (1960) dir. K. Asif
  • Devi (1960) dir. Satyajit Ray
  • Mausam (1975) dir. Gulzar
  • Zanjeer (1973) dir. Prakash Mehra
  • Sholay (1975) dir. Ramesh Sippy
  • The Message: The Story of Islam (1976) (aka Mohammad, Messenger of God) dir. Moustapha Akkad
  • The Making of an Epic: Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) dir. Geoffrey Helman & Christopher Penfold
  • The Sparrow (1972) dir. Youssef Chahine
  • The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin
  • A Guy Named Joe (1943) dir. Victor Fleming
  • Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg
  • The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1995) dir. Laurent Bouzereau
  • Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) dir. Steven Spielberg
  • Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg
  • Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) dir. George Lucas
  • The Hidden Fortress (1958) dir. Akira Kurosawa
  • Triumph of the Will (1935) (aka Triumph des Willens) dir. Leni Riefenstahl

Episode 12 The 1980s: Moviemaking and Protest - Around the World.

  • The Horse Thief (1988) dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
  • Yellow Earth (1985) dir. Chen Kaige
  • Raise the Red Lantern (1991) dir. Zhang Yimou
  • House of Flying Daggers (2004) dir. Zhang Yimou
  • Repentance (1984) dir. Tengiz Abuladze
  • Arsenal (1929) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko (introduced in Episode 3)
  • Come and See (1985) dir. Elem Klimov
  • Long Goodbyes (1971) dir. Kira Muratova
  • A Short Film About Killing (1988) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Wend Kuuni (1983) dir. Gaston Kaboré
  • Yeelen (1987) dir. Souleymane Cissé
  • Video Killed the Radio Star (1979) (music video) dir. Russell Mulcahy
  • Flashdance (1983) dir. Adrian Lyne
  • Top Gun (1986) dir. Tony Scott
  • Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
  • The Elephant Man (1980) dir. David Lynch
  • Do the Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee
  • The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed (introduced in Episode 5)
  • Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980) dir. John Sayles
  • Subway (1985) dir. Luc Besson
  • Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) dir. Leos Carax
  • An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli (introduced in Episode 5)
  • Labyrinth of Passion (1982) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • A Hard Day's Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
  • The Quince Tree Sun (1992) dir. Víctor Erice
  • My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) dir. Stephen Frears
  • My Childhood (1972) dir. Bill Douglas
  • Gregory's Girl (1981) dir. Bill Forsyth
  • Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) dir. Terence Davies
  • Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith (introduced in Episode 1)
  • Young at Heart (1954) dir. Gordon Douglas
  • A Zed & Two Noughts (1986) dir. Peter Greenaway
  • The Last of England (1988) dir. Derek Jarman
  • Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg
  • Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg
  • Neighbours (1952) dir. Norman McLaren
  • Jesus of Montreal (1989) dir. Denys Arcand

Episode 131990-1998: The Last Days of Celluloid - Before the Coming of Digital.

  • The Apple (1998) dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
  • A Moment of Innocence (1996) dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
  • And Life Goes On (1991) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
  • Through the Olive Trees (1994) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
  • Days of Being Wild (1990) dir. Wong Kar-wai
  • In the Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-wai
  • Irma Vep (1996) dir. Olivier Assayas
  • A City of Sadness (1989) dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  • Tokyo Story (1953) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • Vive L'Amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming-liang
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
  • Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg
  • Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
  • La Roue (1923) dir. Abel Gance
  • Ringu (1998) dir. Hideo Nakata
  • The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin
  • Ugetsu monogatari (1953) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Audition (1999) dir. Takashi Miike
  • Breaking the Waves (1996) dir. Lars von Trier
  • Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999) dir. Tom Fontana
  • Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier (introduced in Episode 2)
  • La Haine (1995) dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
  • Do the Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee
  • Humanité (1999) dir. Bruno Dumont
  • Rosetta (1999) dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
  • Touki Bouki (1973) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
  • Beau travail (1999) dir. Claire Denis
  • Late Spring (1949) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • Crows (1994) dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska
  • Wednesday (1997) dir. Victor Kossakovsky
  • 24 Realities a Second (2004) dir. Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor
  • Code Unknown (2000) (aka Code inconnu) dir. Michael Haneke
  • Funny Games (1997) dir. Michael Haneke
  • Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Episode 14 The 1990s: The First Days of Digital - Reality Losing Its Realness in America and Australia.

  • Gladiator (2000) dir. Ridley Scott
  • Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) dir. James Cameron
  • Anchors Aweigh (1945) dir. George Sidney
  • Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) dir. Winsor McCay
  • Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg
  • Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron
  • Toy Story (1995) dir. John Lasseter
  • The Blair Witch Project (1999) dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
  • House of Flying Daggers (2004) dir. Zhang Yimou
  • Goodfellas (1990) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • The Great Train Robbery (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
  • The Killers (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak
  • Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. Quentin Tarantino
  • Reservoir Dogs (1992) dir. Quentin Tarantino
  • City on Fire (1987) dir. Ringo Lam
  • Bande á Part (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Natural Born Killers (1994) dir. Oliver Stone
  • Miller's Crossing (1990) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • The Big Lebowski (1998) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant
  • The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
  • Elephant (2003) dir. Gus Van Sant
  • Elephant (1989) dir. Alan Clarke
  • Gerry (2002) dir. Gus Van Sant
  • Sátántangó (1994) dir. Béla Tarr
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman
  • Last Days (2005) dir. Gus Van Sant
  • Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Psycho (1998) dir. Gus Van Sant
  • Cremaster 3 (2002) dir. Matthew Barney
  • Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
  • RoboCop (1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven
  • Starship Troopers (1997) dir. Paul Verhoeven
  • An Angel at My Table (1990) dir. Jane Campion
  • The Piano (1993) dir. Jane Campion
  • Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann
  • Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann

Episode 152000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle - and the Future of Movies.

  • Swiss Miss (1938) dir. John G. Blystone and Hal Roach
  • Blonde Venus (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
  • Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) dir. Michael Moore
  • The Bourne Supremacy (2004) dir. Paul Greengrass
  • Être et avoir (2002) dir. Nicolas Philibert
  • Zidane - A Portrait in the 21st Century (2006) dir. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) dir. Andrew Dominik
  • Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Climates (2006) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  • The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) dir. Cristi Puiu
  • The Headless Woman (2008) dir. Lucrecia Martel
  • Battle in Heaven (2005) dir. Carlos Reygadas
  • Oasis (2002) dir. Lee Chang-Dong
  • Memories of Murder (2003) dir. Bong Joon-ho
  • Oldboy (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook
  • La Lune à un Mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
  • Mulholland Dr. (2001) dir. David Lynch
  • Requiem for a Dream (2000) dir. Darren Aronofsky
  • Songs from the Second Floor (2000) dir. Roy Andersson
  • Way Out West (1937) dir. James W. Horne
  • Indiscreet (1958) dir. Stanley Donen
  • Rules of Attraction (2002) dir. Roger Avary
  • Avatar (2009) dir. James Cameron
  • Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas
  • Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Mother and Son (1997) dir. Alexander Sokurov
  • Russian Ark (2002) dir. Alexander Sokurov
  • In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (2003) dir. Knut Elstermann
  • Epilogue the Year 2046
  • Inception (2010) dir. Christopher Nolan
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry
oct 24 2012 ∞
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