A Story of Children and Film

A Story of Children and Film is a 2013 documentary film directed by Mark Cousins. It features clips from movies from around the world that feature children, and scenes featuring the director's niece and nephew.

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• The 400 Blows (1959), directed by François Truffaut
• Alyonka (1961), directed by Boris Barnet
• An Angel at My Table (1991), directed by Jane Campion
• Big Business (1929), with Laurel and Hardy, directed by James W. Horne and Leo McCarey
• The Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood (1972), directed by Bill Douglas
• The Boot (1993), directed by Mohammad-Ali Talebi
• Children in the Wind (1937), directed by Hiroshi Shimizu
• Crows (1994), directed by Dorota Kędzierzawska
• Curly Top (1935), with Shirley Temple, directed by Irving Cummings
• Emil and the Detectives (1931), directed by Gerhard Lamprecht
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), directed by Steven Spielberg
• Fanny and Alexander (1982), directed by Ingmar Bergman
• Finlandia (1922), directed by Erkki Karu
• Forbidden Games (1952), directed by René Clément
• Frankenstein (1931), directed by James Whale
• Freedom Is Paradise (1989), directed by Sergey Bodrov
• Gasman (1998), directed by Lynne Ramsay
• Ghatashraddha (1977), directed by Girish Kasaravalli
• Great Expectations (1946), directed by David Lean
• A Hometown in Heart (1949), directed by Yoon Yong-Kyu
• Hugo and Josephine (1967), directed by Kjell Grede
• I Wish (2011), directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
• An Inn in Tokyo (1935), directed by Yasujirō Ozu
• Kauwboy (2012), directed by Boudewijn Koole
• Kes (1969), directed by Ken Loach
• The Kid (1921), directed by Charlie Chaplin
• The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999), directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty
• Long Live the Republic (1965), directed by Karel Kachyňa
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), directed by Vincente Minnelli
• Melody for a Street Organ (2009), directed by Kira Muratova
• Mirror (1975), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
• A Mouse in the House (1947), with Tom and Jerry, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012), directed by Wes Anderson
• Moving (1993), directed by Shinji Sōmai
• The Newest City in the World (1974), directed by Xhanfise Keko
• The Night of the Hunter (1955), directed by Charles Laughton
• Nobody Knows (2004), directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
• Los Olvidados (1950), directed by Luis Buñuel
• Palle Alone in the World (1949), directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen
• The Red Balloon (1953), directed by Albert Lamorisse
• The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), directed by Víctor Erice
• The Steamroller and the Violin (1961), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
• Ten Minutes Older (1978), directed by Herz Frank
• Tomka and His Friends (1977), directed by Xhanfise Keko
• Two Solutions for One Problem (1975), directed by Abbas Kiarostami
• The Unseen (1996), directed by Miroslav Janek
• The White Balloon (1995), directed by Jafar Panahi
• Willow and Wind (1999), directed by Mohammad-Ali Talebi
• Yaaba (1989), directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo
• The Yellow Balloon (1953), directed by J. Lee Thompson
• Yellow Earth (1984), directed by Chen Kaige
• Zero for Conduct (1933), directed by Jean Vigo

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