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Academy Award Winners First 50 Years

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Documentary
TV-PG
1 Season
46m
The most celebrated films in cinema history have all shared a moment within Oscars history. Now see how they are all contextualized within the vast history that encompasses this annual spectacle, which has now enjoyed over eighty years of distinction.

Season 1, 10 Episodes

season 1 (10 episodes)

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The first installment in this engrossing series on the history of the first half-century in cinematic arts, beginning back in 1928. It chronicles the transition of the awards from a discreet dinner party to a fully broadcast spectacle.
TV-PG 46m 2000
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The Golden Age of Hollywood was a pivotal period for a film industry expanding and taking a significant cultural role. The lavish award ceremonies that are now a staple of Hollywood began to emerge.
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1939 was a pivotal year for Hollywood as an industry. As the trajectory of cinema and its grasp expanded and segued from phase to phase, it served as a visible barrier year.
TV-PG 46m 2000
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World War II served as a turning point for virtually all American industries throughout the long and grueling conflict. The American film industry was forced to respond to the international war's costs on every element of its livelihood.
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The postwar years affected Hollywood as much as it did any other American industry during those pivotal transition years as America worked to return to its former normalcy.
TV-PG 46m 2000
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A new wave of ideas and techniques took hold of the perpetually transforming film industry in the years following the war, with a new generation of fresh and hungry stars finding their own places in the vacuum of reconstruction the industry faced.
TV-PG 48m 2000
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The '50s saw a Renaissance of sorts in technological innovations, which allowed a new era of cinema never before possible. Thanks to advents in virtually all facets of production, films were capable of depictions and experiences imaginable before.
TV-PG 47m 2000
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In the years following the century's midpoint, Hollywood began making decidedly epic films by design. As a result, the Academy Awards ceremonies were full of impossible choices between several deserving nominees.
TV-PG 46m 2000
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The start of the 1960s sparked a drastic change in the studio system, the studios, and the trajectory of the industry as a whole, prompting production on some of the most envelope-pushing works of all time.
TV-PG 49m 2000
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Cultural changes in art appreciation and acceptability of indecency led to a pivotal transition in Hollywood. An era of challenging artistic feats with unprecedented vulgarity and lewdness soon followed.
TV-PG 48m 2000
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Academy Award Winners First 50 Years

Documentary
TV-PG
1 Season
46m
The most celebrated films in cinema history have all shared a moment within Oscars history. Now see how they are all contextualized within the vast history that encompasses this annual spectacle, which has now enjoyed over eighty years of distinction.

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