Welcome to The Story of the Movies, a chronicle of Hollywood’s rich history, starting with the movies and events that shaped its creation and charting its development throughout the 20th century.
Edwin S. Porter sparks the public's hunger for narrative films with The Great Train Robbery (1903), and both Mary Pickford and D. W. Griffith begin their movie careers
1940s Movies
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1980s Movies
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The emergence of the star system makes players like Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks household names. D. W. Griffith makes his controversial historical epic The Birth of a Nation.
1950s Movies
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1990s Movies
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1920s Movies
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1960s Movies
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People
Learn about the lives and careers of the key figures in the history of Hollywood...
1930s Movies
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1970s Movies
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Studios
Discovery the histories of the studios responsible for delivering more than a century of Hollywood cinema...