Screen Siren Pictures Inc.

This 6 x 1 hour landmark documentary series will be the first ever to tell the whole history of cinema.

Filmed on every continent, it will describe the thrill of silent cinema, the emergence of Hollywood and the star system, and the artistic evolution of film in Russia, Japan, Germany, Italy, Britain, Scandinavia and the USA. It will profile great movie actors, describe the upheaval of sound cinema, show how World War 2 stimulated entertainment movies but also brought new realism to the silver screen. It will sweep around the globe in the 1950s to reveal how the very language of the movies was bursting at the seams. It will show how modern cinema grew out of such tensions, first in France and then in a series of new waves that were as exciting as they were innovative.

Then it will show how commercial cinema recovered from such experimentation, building multiplexes, entrancing young audiences with new special effects. It will chart the remarkable influence of video on film and demonstrate how the best directors on the planet coped with such challenges. It will end in the digital age with new stars, new genres and new forms of filmmaking and watching.

Based on the best-selling book by Mark Cousins, The Story of Film will be an engrossing, worldwide guided tour to the greatest movies ever made; an epic tale that starts in nickelodeons and ends as a multi-billion dollar globalised digital industry.