Mark Cousins tells the story of cinema, starting in this episode with the birth of the movies, telling the glamorous,...

Movies in the Roaring Twenties: Hollywood became a glittering entertainment industry with star directors like Charlie...

The 1920s were a golden age for world cinema. The programme visits Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Shanghai and Tokyo to explo...

The coming of sound in the 1930s upends everything. We watch the birth of new types of film: screwball comedies, gang...

Mark Cousins explores how the trauma of war led to more daring creations for cinema, focusing on the darkening of Ame...

Sex and melodrama in the movies of the fifties: James Dean, On the Waterfront and glossy weepies. We travel to Egypt,...

The explosive story of film in the late fifties and sixties: The great movie star Claudia Cardinale talks exclusively...

The dazzling 1960s in cinema around the world: In Hollywood, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler reveals how doc...

The maturing of American cinema of the late sixties and seventies: Buck Henry, writer of The Graduate, talks exclusiv...

The movies that tried to change the world in the seventies: Wim Wenders in Germany; Ken Loach and Britain; Pasolini i...

Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. In India the world’s most fa...

Protest in the movies of the 1980s: brave filmmakers spoke truth to power. American independent director John Sayles ...

Film in the 1990s enters a surprise golden age. In Iran we meet Abbas Kiarostami, who rethought movie making and made...

Brilliant, flashy, playful movies in the English speaking world in the nineties. We look at what was new in Tarantino...

Movies come full circle: They get more serious after 9/11, and Romanian movies come to the fore. But then David Lynch...