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Birth of the Cinema
Mark Cousins tells the story of cinema, starting in this episode with the birth of the movies, telling the glamorous, surprising stories of early moviemaking and the first film stars.
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Episode 1: Birth of the Cinema
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Episode 2: The Hollywood Dream
Episode 3: The Golden Age of World Cinema
Episode 4: The Arrival of Sound
Episode 5: Post-War Cinema
Episode 6: Sex & Melodrama
Episode 7: European New Wave
Episode 8: New Directors, New Form
Episode 9: American Cinema of the 70s
Episode 10: Movies to Change the World
Episode 11: The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
Episode 12: Fight the Power: Protest in Film
Episode 13: New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
Episode 14: New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
Episode 15: Cinema Today and the Future