The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Season 1, Episode 11: The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream

Episode synopsis

Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. In India the world’s most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new things in the seventies too. And we discover that Bruce Lee movies kick-started the kinetic films of Hong Kong, where master Yuen Woo-ping talks exclusively about his action movies and his wire fu choreography for The Matrix.

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
• E10Movies to Change the World
• E12Fight the Power: Protest in Film
• E13New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America