The Story of Film: An Odyssey Movies to Change the World (Season 1, Episode 10)
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TV Episode | 62 min | Documentary, History

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The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Movies to Change the World (Season 1, Episode 10)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 62 min | Documentary, History

The Story of Film examines world cinema in the period of 1969-1979. It looks at the work of filmmakers in Germany (Wim Wenders, R. W. Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, and Werner Herzog), Italy (Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci...See moreThe Story of Film examines world cinema in the period of 1969-1979. It looks at the work of filmmakers in Germany (Wim Wenders, R. W. Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, and Werner Herzog), Italy (Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci), Britain (Ken Russell, Donald Cammell, and Nicolas Roeg), Australia (Peter Weir and Gillian Armstrong), and Japan (Noriaki Tsuchimoto and Kazuo Hara). It also looks at the development of Third Cinema which criticizes the commoditization of film and sees film as a way to fight social injustice. It looks at filmmakers from Algeria (Assia Djebar), Senegal (Ousmane Sembene, Djibril Diop Mambety, and Safi Faye), and Ethiopia (Haile Gerima). It also looks at Kurdish filmmaker Yilmaz Guney and Chilean directors Patricio Guzman and A lejandro Jodorowsky. Written by Shatterdaymorn See less

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Mark Cousins Self - Presenter Self - Presenter See fewer	The First Movie (2009)
Wim Wenders Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Wings of Desire (1987)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Fox and His Friends (1975)
Bernardo Bertolucci Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	The Conformist (1970)
Sam Neill Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Jurassic Park (1993)
Kazuo Hara Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Gaston Kaboré Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Zan Boko (1988)
Djibril Diop Mambéty Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Touki Bouki (1973)
Juan Diego Botto Narrator (voice) (version: spanish) Narrator (voice) (version: spanish) See fewer	La Celestina (1996)