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The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a 2011 British documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of over 900 minutes. It was directed and narrated by Mark Cousins, a film critic from Northern Ireland, based on his 2004 book The Story of Film.
Original Release
09/03/2011 on Channel 4
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Mark Cousins | Self - Presenter / Self - Narrator |
| Juan Diego Botto | Narrator |
| Aleksandr Sokurov | Self - Interviewee |
| Norman Lloyd | Self - Interviewee |
| Lars von Trier | Self - Interviewee |
| Paul Schrader | Self - Interviewee |
| Haskell Wexler | Self - Interviewee |
| Woo-Ping Yuen | Self - Interviewee |
| Robert Towne | Self - Interviewee |
| Samira Makhmalbaf | Self / Self - Interviewee |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birth of the Cinema | Saturday, 03 September 2011 |
| 2 | The Hollywood Dream | Saturday, 10 September 2011 |
| 3 | The Golden Age of World Cinema | Saturday, 17 September 2011 |
| 4 | The Arrival of Sound | Saturday, 24 September 2011 |
| 5 | Post-War Cinema | Saturday, 01 October 2011 |
| 6 | Sex & Melodrama | Saturday, 08 October 2011 |
| 7 | European New Wave | Saturday, 15 October 2011 |
| 8 | New Directors, New Form | Saturday, 22 October 2011 |
| 9 | American Cinema of the 70s | Saturday, 29 October 2011 |
| 10 | Movies to Change the World | Saturday, 05 November 2011 |
| 11 | The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream | Saturday, 12 November 2011 |
| 12 | Fight the Power: Protest in Film | Saturday, 19 November 2011 |
| 13 | New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America | Saturday, 26 November 2011 |
| 14 | New American Independents & the Digital Revolution | Saturday, 03 December 2011 |
| 15 | Cinema Today and the Future | Saturday, 10 December 2011 |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Mark Cousins | Self - Presenter / Self - Narrator |
| Juan Diego Botto | Narrator |
| Aleksandr Sokurov | Self - Interviewee |
| Norman Lloyd | Self - Interviewee |
| Lars von Trier | Self - Interviewee |
| Paul Schrader | Self - Interviewee |
| Haskell Wexler | Self - Interviewee |
| Woo-Ping Yuen | Self - Interviewee |
| Robert Towne | Self - Interviewee |
| Samira Makhmalbaf | Self / Self - Interviewee |
| Jean-Michel Frodon | Self - Interviewee / Self - Film Historian |
| Stanley Donen | Self - Interviewee |
| Sharmila Tagore | Self - Interviewee |
| Mani Kaul | Self - Interviewee |
| Youssef Chahine | Self - Interviewee |
| Kyoko Kagawa | Self - Interviewee |
| Donald Richie | Self - Interviewee |
| Gaston Kaboré | Self - Interviewee |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | Self - Interviewee |
| Bill Forsyth | Self - Interviewee |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Tabitha Jackson | Executive Producer |
| Tanya Seghatchian | Executive Producer |
| John Archer | Producer |
| Helen Du Toit | Producer |
| Laura Marcellino | Producer |
| Anita Oxburgh | Producer |
| Sonali Bhattacharya | Producer |
| Rose Issa | Producer |
| Charlotte Wontner | Producer |
| Dhivya Kate Chetty | Producer |
Editors
