The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Season 1, Episode 12: Fight the Power: Protest in Film
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Protest in the movies of the 1980s: brave filmmakers spoke truth to power. American independent director John Sayles talks exclusively about these years. In Beijing, Chinese cinema blossomed before the Tiananmen crackdown. In the Soviet Union, the past wells up in astonishing films, and master director Krzysztof Kieslowski emerges in Poland.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Birth of the Cinema
Episode 2
The Hollywood Dream
Episode 3
The Golden Age of World Cinema
Episode 4
The Arrival of Sound
Episode 5
Post-War Cinema
Episode 6
Sex & Melodrama
Episode 7
European New Wave
Episode 8
New Directors, New Form
Episode 9
American Cinema of the 70s
Episode 10
Movies to Change the World
Episode 11
The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
Episode 12
Fight the Power: Protest in Film
Episode 13
New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
Episode 14
New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
Episode 15
Cinema Today and the Future