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 4 The Arrival of Sound
7.59 60 minutes The coming of sound in the 1930s upends everything. We watch the birth of new types of film: screwball comedies, gangster pictures, horror films, westerns and musicals, and discover a master of most of them, Howard Hawks. Alfred Hitchcock hits his stride and French directors become masters of mood.
