Season
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 11 The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
7.59 60 minutes 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.
