Max Pearson

So would Kurosawa and other filmmakers in Japan at that time have been, if you like, remaking the idea of Japanese cinema?

And if we're going to talk about world cinema, the history of world cinema, we can't obviously cover everything.

But if we look at world cinema, we have to reference Asian cinema and Bollywood.

So if we go back to the 1950s, about the same time as Seven Samurai, would that have been something of a golden age for Indian cinema?

And there is a tradition of African cinema as well.

Now, I understand that there's a film called Black Girl that was made in 1966 that was particularly important as a major feature film from an African director.

And would the success of those films, both from Bollywood and from African directors, they would have been driven by big audiences.

Is that correct?

Hollywood likes to see itself as the center of the cinematic world.

But what about audiences and directors in Africa and Asia?

Do they see it that way?

That's Sarah Jilani, a lecturer in the Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries at City St George's University of London.

Next, we're taking you back 20 years to the release of a film that would break box office records and send thousands into the streets marching for justice.

It was a pivotal moment for Indian cinema.

Here's Reena Stanton-Sharma.

That was the screenwriter Kamlesh Pandey speaking to Reena Stanton Sharma about the 2006 Hindi film Rang De Basanti.

Still to come as the History Hour remains in the cinema this week, the blending of fantasy and fascism in the award-winning Pan's Labyrinth, and the somewhat haphazard production of Casablanca.

Before that, though, we head to 1934 and one of the most controversial movies ever made, Triumph of the Will, a propaganda tool for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Jane Wilkinson has been through the BBC archives to find out more.

Jane Wilkinson was our guide through the archives.