The Movies (miniseries)

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| image = The Movies poster.jpg

| genre = {{nowrap|Television documentary}}

| theme_music_composer =

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| country = United States

| num_seasons = 1

| num_episodes = 6

| runtime = 120 minutes

| network = CNN

| executive_producer = Tom Hanks
Gary Goetzman
Mark Herzog

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| cinematography =

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| company = Playtone
Herzog & Company
HBO

| first_aired = {{Start date|2019|07|07}}

| last_aired = {{End date|2019|08|18}}

| related = The Sixties
The Seventies
The Eighties
The Nineties
The 2000s
The 2010s

}}

The Movies is a documentary miniseries premiered on CNN on July 7, 2019. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's studio Playtone, the six-part series chronicles the cinema of the United States, ranging from the "Golden Age of Hollywood" to the present day. It is a spin-off of Hanks and Goetzman's retrospective miniseries for CNN (including The Sixties and its sequels).

Production

Owing to the costs incurred with licensing the required film footage, episodes on cinema were not included in past Hanks/Goetzman miniseries projects such as The Sixties.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/cnn-van-jones-anthony-bourdain-original-series-1203164234/|title=CNN Original Series Ride News Tide to Multiplatform Success|last=Littleton|first=Cynthia|date=2019-03-15|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=2019-07-04}} In an interview with Deadline Hollywood, Goetzman remarked that "it cost a fortune, and some is fair use, depending on how you guys talk about it, and some isn't, but within it, it's an insane undertaking because the licensing is a very tricky business in this type of thing, and you know, you set out thinking, hey, this is going to be great, right? And then you realize you have approvals, you know, beyond belief with estates in a lot of the situations, too."

He went on to explain that the episodes, in their opinion, would present a "pretty good outline of what those decades are", and that they had managed to obtain every interview they had aimed to include—including John Singleton prior to his death in April 2019,{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/john-singleton-dies-dead-boyz-n-the-hood-1203200263/|title='Boyz n the Hood' Director John Singleton Dies at 51|last=Littleton|first=Cynthia|date=2019-04-29|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=2019-07-04}} as well as Martin Scorsese and Robert Redford almost immediately before a production deadline. Mark Herzog explained that "most directors like Singleton are really historians of film, and they know film, they know the impact of films, they study it, and so it was like talking to historians, all of them."{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/07/cnn-the-movies-limited-series-tom-hanks-steven-spielberg-1202641349/|title=CNN Launches 'The Movies', A Cinephile's Dream Look At Film And Its Impact Over The Decades|last=Hammond|first=Pete|date=2019-07-02|website=Deadline|language=en|access-date=2019-07-04}}

Owing to their complementary nature, Variety stated that CNN planned to incorporate The Movies' respective episodes into its marathons of past Hanks/Goetzman miniseries in the future.

The episode "The Sixties" was intended to air on August 4, but was delayed for coverage of mass shootings which had occurred that day in El Paso and Dayton.

Episodes

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| EpisodeNumber=1

| Title=The Eighties

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2019|07|07}}

| ShortSummary=

| Viewers=0.994{{cite web|last=Katz|first=A.J.|url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard-sunday-july-7/408489/|title=Scoreboard: Sunday, July 7|website=Adweek|date=July 10, 2019|access-date=August 19, 2019}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber=2

| Title=The Nineties

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2019|07|14}}

| ShortSummary=

| Viewers=0.528{{cite web|last=Katz|first=A.J.|url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard-sunday-july-14/409061/|title=Scoreboard: Sunday, July 14|website=Adweek|date=July 16, 2019|access-date=August 19, 2019}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber=3

| Title=The 2000s

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2019|07|21}}

| ShortSummary=

| Viewers=0.556{{cite web|last=Katz|first=A.J.|url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard-sunday-july-21/409463/|title=Scoreboard: Sunday, July 21|website=Adweek|date=July 23, 2019|access-date=August 19, 2019}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber=4

| Title=The Seventies

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2019|07|28}}

| ShortSummary=

| Viewers=0.399{{cite web|last=Katz|first=A.J.|url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard-sunday-july-28/409980/|title=Scoreboard: Sunday, July 28|website=Adweek|date=July 30, 2019|access-date=August 19, 2019}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber=5

| Title=The Sixties

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2019|08|11}}

| ShortSummary=

| Viewers=0.754{{cite web|last=Katz|first=A.J.|url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard-sunday-aug-11/411480|title=Scoreboard: Sunday, August 11|website=Adweek|date=August 13, 2019|access-date=August 19, 2019}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber=6

| Title=The Golden Age

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2019|08|18}}

| ShortSummary=The Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1950s.

| Viewers=0.723{{cite web|last=Katz|first=A.J.|url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard-sunday-aug-18/412141/|title=Scoreboard: Sunday, August 18|website=Adweek|date=August 20, 2019|access-date=August 20, 2019}}

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