All Seasons

Season 1

• S01E01 100 Years of Japanese Cinema

  • September 1, 1995
  • BBC

  Nagisa Oshima explores the first century of Japanese cinema.

• S01E02 Ourselves Alone?

  • October 20, 1995
  • BBC

  Ireland, Donald Taylor Black

• S01E03 Typically British!

  • April 14, 1995
  • BBC

  UK, Stephen Frears

• S01E04 Night of the Directors

  • April 28, 1995
  • BBC

  Germany, Edgar Reitz

• S01E05 Cinema of Tears

  • November 28, 1995
  • BBC

  Brazil, Nelson Pereira dos Santos

• S01E06 A Personal Journey Through American Movies

  • May 21, 1995
  • BBC

  USA, Martin Scorsese

• S01E07 100 Years of Polish Cinema

  • July 28, 1995
  • BBC

  Poland, Pawel Lozinski

• S01E08 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

  • May 26, 1995
  • BBC

  At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Godard's hypothesis.

• S01E09 Cinema of Unease

  • October 10, 1995
  • BBC

  New Zealand, Sam Neill

• S01E10 I Am Curious, Film

  • October 29, 1995
  • BBC

  Scandinavia, Stig Bjorkman

• S01E11 Cinema on the Road

  • December 8, 1995
  • BBC

  Korea, Sun-Woo Jang

• S01E12 The Russian Idea

  • January 1, 1996
  • BBC

  Russia, Sergey Selyanov

• S01E13 And the Show Goes On

  • January 1, 1996
  • BBC

  India, Mrinal Sen

• S01E14 Aristotle's Plot

  • September 13, 1996
  • BBC

  Africa, Jean-Pierre Bekolo

• S01E15 40,000 Years of Dreaming (Australia)

  • July 14, 1999
  • BBC

  Australia, George Miller

• S01E16 Yang + Yin - Gender in Chinese Cinema (China)

  • June 5, 1998
  • BBC

  China, Stanley Kwan