The Story of Film: An Odyssey S1E2 — The Hollywood Dream

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The Story of Film: An Odyssey•Season 1•Episode 2

The Hollywood Dream

8.0/10 · 330 votesSep 10, 201163 min

Ranked #5 of 15 in Season 1•+0.1 vs season avg

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Movies in the Roaring Twenties: Hollywood became a glittering entertainment industry with star directors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. But the gloss and fantasy was challenged by movie makers like Robert Flaherty, Eric Von Stroheim and Carl Theodor Dreyer, who wanted films to be

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E1 8.1

Birth of the Cinema

E2 8.0Now viewing

The Hollywood Dream

E3 8.1

The Golden Age of World Cinema

The Arrival of Sound

Post-War Cinema

Sex & Melodrama

European New Wave

New Directors, New Form

E9 8.0

American Cinema of the 70s

E10 7.7

Movies to Change the World

E11 7.8

The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream

E12 7.8

Fight the Power: Protest in Film

E13 7.9

New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America

E14 7.9

New American Independents & The Digital Revolution

E15 7.9

Cinema Today and the Future

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Mark Cousins

Presenter / Narrator

Mario Cordova

Narrator

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Episode Summary

"The Hollywood Dream" is episode 2 of The Story of Film: An Odyssey season 1. It scored 8.0/10 from 330 votes, ranking #5 of 15 episodes this season (season average 7.9). It aired on September 10, 2011.

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