Kenneth Branagh narrates the last in the series telling the story of early film-making in Europe.
End of an Era. The final episode looks at the impact of the arrival of sound on the European film industry. Despite European technical innovation, the industry lacked investors to promote its discoveries. However, it was not sound that doomed the golden age of European film-making. With the rise to power of the Nazi party at the beginning of the 1930s, a new era dawned in film-making history; international co-productions began to fade and nationalistic propaganda films started asserting their authority.
Directors/Producers David Gill and Kevin Brownlow