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The 1980s: Moviemaking and Protest – Around the World.
- The Horse Thief (1988) dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
- Yellow Earth (1985) dir. Chen Kaige
- Raise the Red Lantern (1991) dir. Zhang Yimou
- House of Flying Daggers (2004) dir. Zhang Yimou
- Monanieba (1984) dir. Tengiz Abuladze
- Arsenal (1929) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko (introduced in Episode 3)
- Come and See (1985) dir. Elem Klimov
- A Long Goodbye (1971) dir. Kira Muratova
- A Short Film About Killing (1988) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Wend Kuuni (1983) dir. Gaston Kaboré
- Yeelen (1987) dir. Souleymane Cissé
- Video Killed the Radio Star (1979) (music video) dir. Russell Mulcahy
- Flashdance (1983) dir. Adrian Lyne
- Top Gun (1986) dir. Tony Scott
- Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
- The Elefant Man (1980) dir. David Lynch
- Do the Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee
- The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed (introduced in Episode 5)
- Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980) dir. John Sayles
- Subway (1985) dir. Luc Besson
- Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) dir. Leos Carax
- An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli (introduced in Episode 5)
- Labyrinth of Passion (1982) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- A Hard Day's Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
- El sol del membrillo (1992) dir. Víctor Erice
- My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) dir. Stephen Frears
- My Childhood (1972) dir. Bill Douglas
- Gregory's Girl (1981) dir. Bill Forsyth
- Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) dir. Terence Davies
- Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith (introduced in Episode 1)
- Young at Heart (1954) dir. Gordon Douglas
- A Zed & Two Noughts (1986) dir. Peter Greenaway
- The Last of England (1988) dir. Derek Jarman
- Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg
- Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg
- Neighbours (1952) dir. Norman McLaren
- Jesus of Montreal (1989) dir. Denys Arcand