这是一套足以让任何一个资深影迷和电影工作者都为之兴奋的产品，它系统地阐述在过去100多年里，电影艺术在欧洲从诞生到发展、壮大、开拓的过程，按照地域的划分系统性地对欧洲主要各国在电影艺术上的发展做了一个梳理。第一集首先就给观众讲述了电影艺术在1895年诞生的过程，由法国卢米埃尔兄弟所拍摄的《火车进站》、《工厂大门》等珍贵片段都被收录其中。第二集讲述的则是瑞典的电影，瑞典作为北欧最为重要的电影艺术发展国家，曾经诞生了伯格曼等著名大导演，但谁又曾想到，他们也经历过电影的低谷。1912年所有瑞典电影人聚集在一起的一次盛会真正让瑞典电影走向了世界的前沿。第三集则来到了法斯宾德、文德斯等的故乡德国，早期的表现主义电影正是从那里诞生而来，成为德国电影的标志之一。新浪潮运动的发源地法国是第四集的主角，它详细介绍了法国电影工业在战争后的复苏与巨大先导性，其中选用了许多耳熟能详的电影片段。第五集则带领我们来到了英国，这个发明出特写镜头和蒙太奇技术的欧洲文化大国却在一战以后开始没落，被其他欧洲国家赶超，但它并没有气馁，一直以其独特的古典意韵在世界电影中独树一帜。在第六集里我们将详细看到有声电影工业对电影发展历史的影响。
本套作品是1996年由专拍电影史纪录片的Kevin Brownlow和Dan Carter合作拍摄的电视系列片，由英国著名影星肯尼斯·布拉纳担任旁白，是电影爱好者入门不可或缺的资料。

A gripping and shocking documentary composed of numerous colorized archive footage. Apocalypse: Verdun takes us to the infamous and bloody battle of Verdun that occurred in February 1916, when World War I had been raging for two years.

Eric Rohmer导演关于Louis Lumière的纪录片。访谈了法国导演Jean Renoir与电影手册创始人Henri Langlois。其中有很多珍贵的早期影像。

Chaque documentaire traite d'un cinéaste, voire d'une école cinématographique (la Nouvelle Vague...), ou d'une question particulière liée au cinéma (Critique et cinéma...). Le choix des réalisateurs, comme les questions abordées sont très empreintes de la vision des Cahiers du cinéma dont André S. Labarthe est l'un des anciens rédacteurs, Janine Bazin étant par ailleurs l'épouse d'André Bazin, fondateur de la revue.
Sur le plan du traitement audiovisuel, les documentaires sont assez hétérogènes et tentent d'ailleurs de s'accorder au style du réalisateur concerné : une caméra portée en plan séquence pour John Cassavetes, une conversation en voiture pour Abbas Kiarostami... D'une manière générale, les documentaires se gardent de comporter une voix-off et cherchent à donner la parole aux réalisateurs, pénétrer son univers, sans forcément recourir à l'interview.
La série démarre en 1964 sur l'ORTF et se poursuit aujourd'hui sur Arte. En 1989, à l'occasion de sa reprise par Arte, la collection est rebaptisée Cinéma, de notre temps.

生命是我们的，由法国共产党产生，包括纪录片和虚构的场景涉及夹在工人阶级，农民阶级和资产阶级的日常现实的事件：一个板董事举办大规模解雇;在工厂，罢工将阻止老工人被解雇;农民积极分子，防止癫痫发作的一个贫苦农民的财产支持;一个失业青年谁拥有不够吃由青年共产主义者的欢迎。

If the cinema had been invented earlier we could have seen Molière on stage and we would know exactly how to act his plays. So Guitry's purpose was to immortalize the artists, thanks to the "magic lantern". The silent sequences (1915) were presented by Guitry sitting at his desks as such is often the case.
Saint-Saens, age 80, is conducting his orchestra and we see him face on, which is, Guitry points out, completely unusual. Auguste Renoir, an old disabled man, needs his son's help (the famous Jean who would become one of the greatest French directors) to continue his work. HG Clouzot would remember Guitry's lesson when he filmed "Le Mystere Picasso" (1956). Renoir declares that he would accept the "Legion d'Honneur" because it impresses the station masters, one sentence Henri Jeanson will use (more or less) in the lines of "Entrée des Artistes".
"Ceux de Chez Nous" is not unlike Guitry's infamous "De Jeanne D'Arc à Pétain". Of course it's less offensive nowadays than the 1942 effort.

It is always a great emotion to watch Michel Simon, perhaps the greatest french-speaking comedian ever, whether he appears in Carné's or Duvivier's pre-war masterpieces or in mediocre films by third rate directors. But it is actually the same emotion to watch him in the role of Michel Simon. As noted by Sacha Guitry in the prologue of La Poison, with him there is no reason to stop filming as no one knows when he starts or stops acting. Guitry was perhaps the only established director to trust Michel Simon and offer him major roles at the end of his career which Jean Renoir certainly did not, and this is why it is particularly painful to watch his hypocritical demonstrations of friendship and interest. Renoir's idea was probably to entertain his court of young admirers (Rivette et al.) by showing them some old freak. But in spite of his endless but insignificant talking, Renoir just does not exist in front of Michel Simon.

It is always a great emotion to watch Michel Simon, perhaps the greatest french-speaking comedian ever, whether he appears in Carné's or Duvivier's pre-war masterpieces or in mediocre films by third rate directors. But it is actually the same emotion to watch him in the role of Michel Simon. As noted by Sacha Guitry in the prologue of La Poison, with him there is no reason to stop filming as no one knows when he starts or stops acting. Guitry was perhaps the only established director to trust Michel Simon and offer him major roles at the end of his career which Jean Renoir certainly did not, and this is why it is particularly painful to watch his hypocritical demonstrations of friendship and interest. Renoir's idea was probably to entertain his court of young admirers (Rivette et al.) by showing them some old freak. But in spite of his endless but insignificant talking, Renoir just does not exist in front of Michel Simon.