The Story of Film part 11: Innovation in Popular Culture Around the World

Michael Moore paints a fiery portrait of life in Trump’s America. Populist, provocative and piercingly captivating, this is Moore’s clarion call to action.

Daniel Farson meets people affected by polio in a series of studio interviews and a filmed report with a man paralysed after contracting the disease.

The account of a close, personal relationship as experienced by a disabled man.

Despite the bleak title, there is some hope in this film about disabled schoolchildren.

Daniel Farson interviews people affected by epilepsy and discusses the social stigma attached to the condition.

Paul Hunt, the Rosa Parks of the UK disability rights movement, talks about living in a disabling society.

A sensuous and sexy snapshot from the life of James Dean, capturing moments from the years before his career took off.

Kent Jones’ excellent documentary about a historic encounter between two cinema greats.

Sally Ann Howes plays the 12-year-old spotted by a casting director, setting her on the way to stardom.

Mapping how British film and TV depicts the gay and lesbian lifestyle, Andrea Weiss raids the archives for her funny and persuasive documentary.

An illuminating documentary about American cinema’s maverick genius Robert Altman, featuring unseen home movies and extensive interviews.

From the director of Heimat, a mini-epic about the history of German cinema.

Neneh Cherry, director Mark Cousins and cinematographer Christopher Doyle's exquisite love song to the Swedish city.

Mark Cousins’ cine-essay, inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s 1930s Mexican odyssey, is a poetic meditation on memory, landscape and walking.

Mark Cousins' personal and poetic exploration of the cinema of childhood, as told through 53 great films from 25 countries.

This stunning series closes with an appraisal of post-9/11 cinema, analysis of its best directors and a speculative look at film in the future.

Tarantino, Lebowski and Buzz Lightyear refresh the movies with dazzling dialogue, visuals and a signpost toward cinema's future.

Easy Rider and 2001: A Space Odyssey signal a new phase in cinema. It's part of a movement bringing Polanski, Tarkovsky and others to prominence.

Ryan Gosling stars as Neil Armstrong in this powerful and sometimes petrifying biopic from the director of La La Land.

Michael Moore paints a fiery portrait of life in Trump’s America. Populist, provocative and piercingly captivating, this is Moore’s clarion call to action.

Gaspar Noé's visually dazzling feast of music and mayhem reveals a director at the height of his provocative filmmaking powers.

While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend, in this electrifying Sundance hit.

A foster teen channels his rage into rap in Ed Lilly’s urgent freestyling drama.

The spy thriller that overturned the genre stars Matt Damon as the amnesiac searching for his true identity.