Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
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.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Where It All Began
01-10-199558 minHighlighting the world's first public presentation of films in Paris, the comedies by Max Linder, Abel Gance's J'Accuse and the onset of World War I.
- Ep 2
2.Art's Promised Land
08-10-199558 minIncluding Ingeborg Holm by Victor Sjostrom and Greta Garbo's star-making performance opposite Lars Hanson in Gosta Berling's Saga. Directed by Michael Winterbottom.
- Ep 3
3.The Unchained Camera
15-10-199558 minFeaturing The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein, Metropolis by Fritz Lang, Joyless Street starring Greta Garbo, The White Hell of Pitz Palu featuring Leni Riefenstahl and Lo...
- Ep 4
4.The Music of Light
22-10-199558 minHighlighting Abel Gance's masterpiece, Napoleon.
- Ep 5
5.Opportunity Lost
29-10-199558 minExploring the early career of Alfred Hitchcock.
- Ep 6
6.End of an Era
05-11-199558 minFocusing on the arrival of sound films, The Jazz Singer and the onslaught of World War II.
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