Hollywood
Season 1 Episode 4 - Hollywood Goes to War
8.3 ?
1980
Documentary
The outbreak of World War I provides Hollywood with a successful source for plots and profits. Peacetime curtails the release of war movies, until the release of King Vidor's The Big Parade in 1925. Wings (1927) earns the first Academy Award for Best Picture. As movies transition to sound, Universal releases Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front, showing the German side of the conflict, becoming a powerful statement of war by the generation that fought it. Interviews include Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., King Vidor, Blanche Sweet and Lillian Gish.
Episodes in Season 1
1
Pioneers
50 min
2
In the Beginning
50 min
3
Single Beds and Double Standards
50 min
4
Hollywood Goes to War
50 min
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5
Hazard of the Game
50 min
6
Swanson and Valentino
50 min
7
The Autocrats
50 min
8
Comedy: A Serious Business
50 min
9
Out West
50 min
10
The Man with the Megaphone
50 min
11
Trick of the Light
50 min
12
Star Treatment
50 min
13
End of an Era
50 min
