The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Season 1, Episode 10: Movies to Change the World

Episode synopsis

The movies that tried to change the world in the seventies: Wim Wenders in Germany; Ken Loach and Britain; Pasolini in Italy; the birth of new Australian cinema; and then Japan, which was making the most moving films in the world. Even bigger, bolder questions about film were being asked in Africa and South America, and the story ends with John Lennon’s favourite film, the extraordinary, psychedelic The Holy Mountain.

About The Story of Film: An Odyssey

A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Birth of the Cinema
• E2The Hollywood Dream
• E3The Golden Age of World Cinema
• E4The Arrival of Sound
• E5Post-War Cinema
• E6Sex & Melodrama
• E7European New Wave
• E8New Directors, New Form
• E9American Cinema of the 70s
• E11The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
• E12Fight the Power: Protest in Film
• E13New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America