The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Season 1, Episode 11: The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream

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Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. In India the world’s most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new things in the seventies too. And we discover that Bruce Lee movies kick-started the kinetic films of Hong Kong, where master Yuen Woo-ping talks exclusively about his action movies and his wire fu choreography for The Matrix.

All Episodes - Season 1

Birth of the Cinema
Episode 1
Birth of the Cinema
 The Hollywood Dream
Episode 2
The Hollywood Dream
 The Golden Age of World Cinema
Episode 3
The Golden Age of World Cinema
 The Arrival of Sound
Episode 4
The Arrival of Sound
 Post-War Cinema
Episode 5
Post-War Cinema
 Sex & Melodrama
Episode 6
Sex & Melodrama
 European New Wave
Episode 7
European New Wave
 New Directors, New Form
Episode 8
New Directors, New Form
 American Cinema of the 70s
Episode 9
American Cinema of the 70s
 Movies to Change the World
Episode 10
Movies to Change the World
 The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
Episode 11
The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
 Fight the Power: Protest in Film
Episode 12
Fight the Power: Protest in Film
 New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
Episode 13
New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
 New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
Episode 14
New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
 Cinema Today and the Future
Episode 15
Cinema Today and the Future
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