We return to our drift backwards through cinema with a ground-breaking documentary. If that’s what it is.
Dietrich speaks! Artistic and political Rubicons are crossed for good.
Our series moving backwards through time finds a tale of the darkest impulses from the last days of Weimar Germany
As we move backwards, sound becomes an increasing novelty. Rouben Mamoulian uses it brilliantly in one of the first great musicals.
We sink into the deepest days of the US depression with the greatest film from a team of anarchic geniuses
Our series travelling through a century of cinema encounters an untouchable experiment in poetic realism.
We reach the middle of the 1930s and (as it happens) Screenwriter’s very favourite film.
The landmark British documentary paints a picture of a vanishing world.
