"In a single week it's possible to watch and hear interesting commentary about the movies of the silent era, darkly bright 1940s noir, the vast CinemaScope epics of the 1950s and the gritty capitalist realism of the 1970s."
If you have yet to watch "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies," then by god do so. It's fucking great. Here's the first 10 minutes.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTbNv-P_9fg>
Dennis