The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Season 1, Episode 3: The Golden Age of World Cinema

Episode synopsis

The 1920s were a golden age for world cinema. The programme visits Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Shanghai and Tokyo to explore the places where movie makers were pushing the boundaries of the medium. German expressionism, Soviet montage and French impressionism and surrealism were passionate new film movements, but less well known are the glories of Chinese and Japanese films and the moving story of one of the great, now largely forgotten, movie stars, Ruan Lingyu.

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
• 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