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The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of 900 minutes. It was directed and narrated by Mark Cousins, a film critic from Northern Ireland, based on his 2004 bookThe Story of Film.[1]

Table (sortable) of film clips shown

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(Episodes Needed To Add -> 02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,14,15)
(Episodes Added -> 01,10,11,12,13)

Episode Title Director Year
01 Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg 1998
01 Three Colors: Blue Krzysztof Kieślowski 1993
01 Casablanca Michael Curtiz 1942
01 The Record of a Tenement Gentleman Yasujirō Ozu 1947
01 Odd Man Out Carol Reed 1947
01 Two or Three Things I Know About Her Jean-Luc Godard 1967
01 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese 1976
01 The French Connection William Friedkin 1971
01 Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge Louis Le Prince 1888
01 The Kiss (1896 film) (aka May Irwin Kiss) William Heise 1896
01 Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory Louis Lumière 1895
01 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Louis Lumière 1896
01 Annabelle Serpentine Dance William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise 1894-1896 (?)
01 Sandow William Kennedy Dickson 1894
01 What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter 1901
01 Cendrillon Georges Melies 1899
01 La lune à un mètre Georges Melies 1898
01 A Kiss in the Tunnel George Albert Smith 1899
01 Shoah Claude Lanzmann 1985
01 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 1968
01 The Sick Kitten George Albert Smith 1903
01 October: Ten Days That Shook the World Sergei Eisenstein 1928
01 Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone 1968
01 The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight Enoch J. Rector 1897
01 Life of an American Fireman Edwin S. Porter 1903
01 Sherlock, Jr. Buster Keaton 1924
01 The Horse that Bolted Charles Pathé 1907
01 The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (aka The Assassination of the Duc de Guise) 1908
01 Vivre sa vie Jean-Luc Godard 1962
01 Those Awful Hats 1909
01 The Mended Lute D.W. Griffith 1909
01 The Abyss 1910
01 Stage Struck 1925
01 The Mysterious X Benjamin Christensen 1914
01 Häxan Benjamin Christensen 1922
01 Ingeborg Holm Victor Sjöström 1913
01 The Phantom Carriage Victor Sjöström 1921
01 Shanghai Express 1932
01 The Story of the Kelly Gang 1906
01 The Squaw Man 1914
01 Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Irvin Kershner 1980
01 Falling Leaves 1912
01 Suspense 1913
01 The Wind Victor Sjöström 1928
01 Rescued from an Eagle's Nest D. W. Griffith 1908
01 The House with Closed Shutters (1910) 1910
01 Way Down East D. W. Griffith 1920
01 Orphans of the Storm D. W. Griffith 1921
01 Birth of a Nation D. W. Griffith 1915
01 Rebirth of a Nation 2007
01 Cabiria 1914
01 Intolerance D. W. Griffith 1916
01 Souls on the Road (aka Rojo No Reikan) Minoru Murata 1921
Episodes Needed To Add -> 02 + 03 + 04 + 05 + 06 + 07 + 08 + 09
10 Fox and His Friends / Faustrecht der Freiheit Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1975
10 All That Heaven Allows Douglas Sirk 1955
10 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul / Angst essen Seele auf Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1974
10 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant / Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1972
10 All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950
10 Alice in the Cities / Alice in den Städten Wim Wenders 1974
10 An Affair to Remember Leo McCarey 1957
10 Gods of the Plague / Götter der Pest Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1970
10 The Second Awakening of Christa Klages / Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages Margarethe von Trotta 1978
10 Burden of Dreams Les Blank 1982
10 Arabian Nights / Il fiore delle mille e una notte Pier Paolo Pasolini 1974
10 The Spider's Stratagem / Strategia del ragno Bernardo Bertolucci 1970
10 The Conformist / Il conformista Bernardo Bertolucci 1970
10 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese 1976
10 Women in Love Ken Russell 1969
10 Performance Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg 1970
10 Mean Streets Martin Scorsese 1973
10 Persona Ingmar Bergman 1966
10 Walkabout Nicolas Roeg 1971
10 Picnic at Hanging Rock Peter Weir 1975
10 My Brilliant Career Gillian Armstrong 1979
10 Minamata: The Victims and Their World Noriaki Tsuchimoto 1971
10 The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On Kazuo Hara 1987
10 Black Girl / La noire de... Ousmane Sembène 1966
10 Tarzan's Secret Treasure Richard Thorpe 1941
10 La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua Assia Djebar 1977
10 Xala Ousmane Sembène 1975
10 Sinemaabi: A Dialogue with Djibril Diop Mambéty Beti Ellerson Poulenc 1997
10 Badou Boy Djibril Diop Mambéty 1970
10 Hyenas / Hyènes / Ramatou Djibril Diop Mambéty 1992
10 Kaddu Beykat / Lettre paysanne Safi Faye 1975
10 Harvest: 3,000 Years / Mirt sost shi amit Haile Gerima 1976
10 Hope / Umit Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören 1970
10 Yol Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören 1982
10 The Battle of Chile / La batalla de Chile Patricio Guzmán 1975/1977/1979
10 The Holy Mountain / La montaña sagrada Alejandro Jodorowsky 1973
11 The Kingdom and the Beauty Li Han-hsiang 1959
11 A Touch of Zen King Hu 1971
11 Enter the Dragon Robert Clouse 1973
11 A Better Tomorrow John Woo 1986
11 Iron Monkey Yuen Woo-ping 1993
11 The Matrix Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski 1999
11 Once Upon a Time in China Tsui Hark 1991
11 New Dragon Gate Inn Raymond Lee 1992
11 Mughal-e-Azam K. Asif 1960
11 Devi Satyajit Ray 1960
11 Mausam Gulzar 1975
11 Zanjeer Prakash Mehra 1973
11 Sholay Ramesh Sippy 1975
11 The Message: The Story of Islam / Mohammad, Messenger of God Moustapha Akkad 1976
11 The Making of an Epic: Mohammad, Messenger of God Geoffrey Helman & Christopher Penfold 1976
11 The Sparrow Youssef Chahine 1972
11 The Exorcist William Friedkin 1973
11 A Guy Named Joe Victor Fleming 1943
11 Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975
11 The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws Laurent Bouzereau 1995
11 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock 1979
11 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg 1977
11 Jurassic Park Steven Spielberg 1993
11 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope George Lucas 1977
11 The Hidden Fortress Akira Kurosawa 1958
11 Triumph of the Will / Triumph des Willens Leni Riefenstahl 1935
12 The Horse Thief Tian Zhuangzhuang 1986
12 Yellow Earth Chen Kaige 1984
12 Raise the Red Lantern Zhang Yimou 1991
12 House of Flying Daggers Zhang Yimou 2004
12 Repentance Tengiz Abuladze 1984
12 Arsenal Alexander Dovzhenko 1928
12 Come and See Elem Klimov 1985
12 Long Goodbyes Kira Muratova 1971
12 A Short Film About Killing Krzysztof Kieslowski 1988
12 Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960
12 Wend Kuuni Gaston Kaboré 1983
12 Yeelen Souleymane Cissé 1987
12 Video Killed the Radio Star Russell Mulcahy 1979
12 Flashdance Adrian Lyne 1983
12 Top Gun Tony Scott 1986
12 Blue Velvet David Lynch 1986
12 The Elephant Man David Lynch 1980
12 Do the Right Thing Spike Lee 1989
12 The Third Man Carol Reed 1949
12 Return of the Secaucus 7 John Sayles 1980
12 Subway Luc Besson 1985
12 Les Amants du Pont-Neuf Leos Carax 1991
12 An American in Paris Vincente Minnelli 1951
12 Labyrinth of Passion / Laberinto de pasiones Pedro Almodóvar 1982
12 A Hard Day's Night Richard Lester 1964
12 El sol del membrillo / Quince Tree of the Sun Victor Erice 1992
12 My Beautiful Laundrette Stephen Frears 1985
12 My Childhood Bill Douglas 1972
12 Gregory's Girl Bill Forsyth 1981
12 Distant Voices, Still Lives Terence Davies 1988
12 Intolerance D. W. Griffith 1916
12 Young at Heart Gordon Douglas 1954
12 A Zed & Two Noughts Peter Greenaway 1985
12 The Last of England Derek Jarman 1987
12 Videodrome David Cronenberg 1983
12 Crash David Cronenberg 1996
12 Neighbours Norman McLaren 1952
12 Jésus de Montréal Denys Arcand 1989
13 The Apple Samira Makhmalbaf 1998
13 A Moment of Innocence Mohsen Makhmalbaf 1996
13 Where Is the Friend's Home? Abbas Kiarostami 1987
13 And Life Goes On Abbas Kiarostami 1991
13 Through the Olive Trees Abbas Kiarostami 1994
13 Days of Being Wild Wong Kar-wai 1990
13 In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai 2000
13 Irma Vep Olivier Assayas 1996
13 A City of Sadness Hou Hsiao-Hsien 1989
13 Tokyo Story Yasujirō Ozu 1953
13 Vive L'Amour Tsai Ming-liang 1994
13 Tetsuo: The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto 1989
13 Videodrome David Cronenberg 1983
13 Tetsuo II: Body Hammer Shinya Tsukamoto 1992
13 La Roue Abel Gance 1923
13 Rungu Hideo Nakata 1998
13 The Exorcist William Friedkin 1973
13 Ugetsu monogatari Kenji Mizoguchi 1953
13 Audition Takashi Miike 1999
13 Breaking the Waves Lars von Trier 1996
13 Homicide: Life on the Street Tom Fontana 1993-1999
13 Dogville Lars von Trier 2003
13 La Haine Mathieu Kassovitz 1995
13 Do the Right Thing Spike Lee 1989
13 L'humanité Bruno Dumont 1999
13 Rosetta Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne 1999
13 Touki Bouki Djibril Diop Mambéty 1973
13 Beau travail Claire Denis 1999
13 Late Spring Yasujirō Ozu 1949
13 Crows Dorota Kędzierzawska 1994
13 Wednesday Victor Kossakovsky 1997
13 24 Realities a Second Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor 2004
13 Code Unknown / Code inconnu Michael Haneke 2000
13 Funny Games Michael Haneke 1997
13 Persona Ingmar Bergman 1966
Episodes Needed To Add -> 14 + 15
  1. ^ Scott, A. O. (January 31, 2012). "Your Film of Films: A Sweeping History of an Art". NYTimes. Retrieved January 31, 2012.