The Story of Film – Movies to Change the World
1969-1979: Radical Directors in the 70s – Make State of the Nation Movies.
- Fox and His Friends (1975) (a.k.a. Faustrecht der Freiheit) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- All That Heaven Allows (1955) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Douglas Sirk
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (a.k.a. Angst essen Seele auf) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) (a.k.a. Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Alice in the Cities (1974) (a.k.a. Alice in den Städten) dir. Wim Wenders
- An Affair to Remember (1957) dir. Leo McCarey
- Gods of the Plague (1970) (a.k.a. Götter der Pest) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978) (a.k.a. Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages) dir. Margarethe von Trotta
- Burden of Dreams (1982) dir. Les Blank
- Arabian Nights (1974) (a.k.a. Il fiore delle mille e una notte) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- The Spider’s Stratagem (1970) (a.k.a. Strategia del ragno) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
- The Conformist (1970) (a.k.a. Il conformista) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
- Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
- Women in Love (1969) dir. Ken Russell
- Performance (1970) dir. Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg
- Mean Streets (1973) (introduced in Episode 9) dir. Martin Scorsese
- Persona (1966) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Walkabout (1971) dir. Nicolas Roeg
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir
- My Brilliant Career (1979) dir. Gillian Armstrong
- Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) dir. Noriaki Tsuchimoto
- The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987) dir. Kazuo Hara
- Black Girl (1966) (a.k.a. La noire de…) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Ousmane Sembène
- Tarzan’s Secret Treasure (1941) dir. Richard Thorpe
- La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1971) dir. Assia Djebar
- Xala (1975) dir. Ousmane Sembène
- Sinemaabi: A Dialogue with Djibril Diop Mambéty (1997) dir. Beti Ellerson Poulenc
- Badou Boy (1970) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Hyènes (1992) (a.k.a. Hyenas/Ramatou) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Kaddu Beykat (1975) (a.k.a. Lettre paysanne) dir. Safi Faye
- Harvest: 3,000 Years (1976) (a.k.a. Mirt sost shi amit) dir. Haile Gerima
- Umut (1970) (a.k.a. Hope) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
- Yol (1982) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
- The Battle of Chile (1975/1977/1979) (a.k.a. La batalla de Chile) dir. Patricio Guzmán
- The Holy Mountain (1973) (a.k.a. La montaña sagrada) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky