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The Story of Film: An Odyssey Season 1 Episode 5
Mark Cousins explores how the trauma of war led to more daring creations for cinema, focusing on the darkening of American film and the drama of the McCarthy years. Screenwriters Paul Schrader and Robert Towne discuss the era and Stanley Donen – director of Singin’ in the Rain – talks about his career.
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.
Episodes
A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.
Reacher
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House of Cards
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The Spoils of Babylon
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Station Eleven
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Sleepy Hollow
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The Borgias
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Bookie
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Moving
Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.
Godless
A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.
The Envoys
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Halt and Catch Fire
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Bob’s Burgers
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Gotham
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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Fargo
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.