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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
Roman Polański (a.f.)
France
Stanley Kwan
Hong Kong
Woo-ping Yuen
China
Hark Tsui
Vietnam
Youssef Chahine
Egypt
Mercedes McCambridge
USA
Best series:
Rawhide (1959) (series)
Amazing Stories (1985) (series)
Magnum, P.I. (1980) (series)
William Friedkin (a.f.)
USA
Best series:
The Simpsons (1989) (series)
Steven Spielberg (a.f.)
USA
Ronald Reagan (a.f.)
USA
Best series:
Narcos (2015) (series) - a.f.
Who Is America? (2018) (series) - a.f.
The X-Files (1993) (series) - a.f.
David Lynch (a.f.)
USA
Best series:
Twin Peaks (1990) (series)
Louie (2010) (series)
Family Guy (1999) (series)
Zhuangzhuang Tian
China
Gaston Kaboré
Burkina Faso
John Sayles
USA
Bill Forsyth
UK
Terence Davies
UK
Best series:
Coronation Street (1960) (series)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iran
Abbas Kiarostami
Iran
Ming-liang Tsai
Malaysia