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📊 Series Specifications
Network BBC Two, Alla Risacca
Episode Runtime ~58 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 6
Original Language EN
Creator Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
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Ended Series Status:
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Synopsis
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.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 (Miniseries)
6 Episodes E1 Where It All Began
Highlighting 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.
E2 Art's Promised Land
Including Ingeborg Holm by Victor Sjostrom and Greta Garbo's star-making performance opposite Lars Hanson in Gosta Berling's Saga. Directed by Michael Winterbottom.
E3 The Unchained Camera
Featuring 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 Louise Brooks becomes a star in Pandora's Box.
E6 End of an Era
Focusing on the arrival of sound films, The Jazz Singer and the onslaught of World War II.