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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Birth of the Cinema
- Season 1 The Hollywood Dream
- Season 1 The Golden Age of World Cinema
- Season 1 The Arrival of Sound
- Season 1 Post-War Cinema
- Season 1 Sex & Melodrama
- Season 1 European New Wave
- Season 1 New Directors, New Form
- Season 1 American Cinema of the 70s
- Season 1 Movies to Change the World
- Season 1 The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
- Season 1 Fight the Power: Protest in Film
- Season 1 New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
- Season 1 New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
- Season 1 Cinema Today and the Future
The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Season 1 Episode 6 Sex & Melodrama
7.60 60 minutes Sex and melodrama in the movies of the fifties: James Dean, On the Waterfront and glossy weepies. We travel to Egypt, India, China, Mexico, Britain and Japan to find that movies there were also full of rage and passion. Exclusive interviews include associates of Indian master Satyajit Ray; legendary Japanese actress Kyoko Kagawa, who starred in films by Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu; and the first great African director, Youssef Chahine.
