Every year more and more films are released, new names and genres appear. To understand what is happening in cinema now, it is important to understand how cinema originated and developed. Film historian, teacher at the Humanitarian Institute of Film and Television Igor Belenky examines the main stages in the formation of cinema: how cinema became art, fought for sound, was propaganda, survived the turbulent sixties and the dashing nineties. This includes the history of cinema, analysis of the most iconic films, and analysis of key events in France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, USA, Russia and Asian countries.