I felt the episodes were pretty enjoyable...I especially enjoyed the 80's, 90's and 60's...some content was informative of some movies I never knew of or the actors, directors, producers and screenwriters viewpoints or perspectives.
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They Just Bit Off Too Much
Hitchcoc20 August 2019
To take the first fifty or so years of film in less than two hours is a hopeless task. And, unfortunately, the footage was some of the same old tired stuff that is seen over and over. Citizen Kane got a little treatment, but not much. When one looks at 1939, we see the most amazing set of films ever produced as a whole. How can you do justice to that. The decade by decade effort of the previous episodes had all they could do to do justice. This one was just too superficial. It's as if they didn't want to ignore most of the work and decided to throw this in.
Amazingly Superficial
film_poster_fan19 August 2019
I have seen all six episodes and, while none of the previous ones were very good, this sadly was the worst. It began poorly by dismissing the silent era of films in a one minute discussion and then moving on to the films of the 1930s through the 1950s. Two hours for three decades of countless classics? When the documentary feels the need to identify actors like Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable, you feel your intelligence being insulted. Films like Citizen Kane, Casablanca, and The Searchers were discussed in a total of five minutes, perhaps. Like the the other episodes, this seems very superficial and uninformative.
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