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Five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. It provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic tale that starts in nickelodeons and ends as a multi-billion dollar globalised digital industry. (Network)
(more)Cast
Howard Hawks (a.f.)
USA
Jean Renoir (a.f.)
France
Alfred Hitchcock (a.f.)
UK
Best series:
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) (series) - guide
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) (series) - guide
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) (series) - a.f.
François Truffaut (a.f.)
France
David Lean (a.f.)
UK
Claudia Cardinale
Tunisia
Best series:
Nostromo (1996) (series)
Mia, Liebe meines Lebens (1998) (series)
Desert of Fire (1997) (series)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (a.f.)
Italy
Sergio Leone (a.f.)
Italy
Luchino Visconti (a.f.)
Italy
Nagisa Ōshima
Japan
Ken Loach
UK
Haskell Wexler
USA
Buck Henry
USA
Best series:
Dilbert (1999) (series)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) (series)
30 Rock (2006) (series)
Charles Burnett
USA
Robert Towne
USA
Francis Ford Coppola (a.f.)
USA
Michael Powell (a.f.)
UK
Martin Scorsese (a.f.)
USA
Best series:
Entourage (2004) (series)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000) (series)
30 Rock (2006) (series)
Peter Bogdanovich (a.f.)
USA
Best series:
The Simpsons (1989) (series)
The Sopranos (1999) (series)
How I Met Your Mother (2005) (series)