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The Story of Film: An Odyssey
S01 E03 / THE GOLDEN AGE OF WORLD CINEMA
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EP 01
BIRTH OF THE CINEMA
EP 02
THE HOLLYWOOD DREAM
EP 03
THE GOLDEN AGE OF WORLD CINEMA
EP 04
THE ARRIVAL OF SOUND
EP 05
POST-WAR CINEMA
EP 06
SEX & MELODRAMA
EP 07
EUROPEAN NEW WAVE
EP 08
NEW DIRECTORS, NEW FORM
EP 09
AMERICAN CINEMA OF THE 70S
EP 10
MOVIES TO CHANGE THE WORLD
EP 11
THE ARRIVAL OF MULTIPLEXES AND ASIAN MAINSTREAM
EP 12
FIGHT THE POWER: PROTEST IN FILM
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THE GOLDEN AGE OF WORLD CINEMAThe 1920s were a golden age for world cinema. The programme visits Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Shanghai and Tokyo to explore the places where movie makers were pushing the boundaries of the medium. German expressionism, Soviet montage and French impressionism and surrealism were passionate new film movements, but less well known are the glories of Chinese and Japanese films and the moving story of one of the great, now largely forgotten, movie stars, Ruan Lingyu.
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