The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Season 1, Episode 2: The Hollywood Dream
Documentary • 63 min • 1 season, 15 episodes • ★ 7.7/10
Episode synopsis
Movies in the Roaring Twenties: Hollywood became a glittering entertainment industry with star directors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. But the gloss and fantasy was challenged by movie makers like Robert Flaherty, Eric Von Stroheim and Carl Theodor Dreyer, who wanted films to be more serious and mature. This was a battle for the soul of cinema. The result: some of the greatest movies ever made.
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
- 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
- E11The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
- E12Fight the Power: Protest in Film
- E13New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America