
The origin of European cinema, from its infancy as a novelty created by French inventors Auguste and Louis Lumière to its flourishing as the pinnacle of film-making in the silent era and as a serious commercial contender against America.
Air Date: 1995-10-01
Highlighting the world's first public presentation of films in Paris, the comedies by Max Linder, Abel Gance's J'Accu...
Air Date: 1995-10-08
Including Ingeborg Holm by Victor Sjostrom and Greta Garbo's star-making performance opposite Lars Hanson in Gosta Be...
Air Date: 1995-10-15
Featuring The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein, Metropolis by Fritz Lang, Joyless Street starring Greta Garbo...
Air Date: 1995-10-22
Highlighting Abel Gance's masterpiece, Napoleon.
Air Date: 1995-10-29
Exploring the early career of Alfred Hitchcock.
Air Date: 1995-11-05
Focusing on the arrival of sound films, The Jazz Singer and the onslaught of World War II.