{"podcast":{"title":"The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever","slug":"the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535","podcast_index_feed_id":6929535,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6184358/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6b6cd6b7a59220c5f78e360e315d1fe9.jpg","author":"Tristan Ettleman","episode_count":105,"summary":"The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever features experts and enthusiasts and, well, their favorite films of every year ever. Host Tristan Ettleman sits down with a new guest every week to dive into the history and beauty of some of the best movies to ever come out of the cinematic medium.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T16:17:39.934373+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535"},"episode":{"title":"1911 E1 - The Feature Begins?","slug":"1911-e1-the-feature-begins","published_at":"2026-03-04T07:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/1911-e1-the-feature-begins","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1911-e1-the-feature-begins--70417399","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70417399/1911_e1.mp3","summary":"1911 really feels like the beginning of the feature film. Oh sure, it didn’t suddenly define the output of the global film industry, but ambitious experiments from Italy, Denmark, Russia, and only very tentatively, America, sat alongside narrative, as well as plenty of non-narrative, successes and intriguing failures in the short form. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your top five for 1911! Films mentioned: L’Inferno (1911) - Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, and Giuseppe De Liguoro L’Odissea (1911) - Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, and Giuseppe De Liguoro The Black Dream (1911) - Urban Gad The Girl Behind the Counter (1911) - August Blom Defence of Sevastopol (1911) - Aleksandr Khanzhonkov and Vasily Goncharov Enoch Arden (1911) - D.W. Griffith Little Nemo (1911) - Winsor McCay and J. Stuart Blackton David Copperfield (1911) - Theodore Marston She (1911) - George Nichols A Tale of Two Cities (1911) - Charles Kent and William J. Humphrey The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1911) - Albert Capellani A Heroine of ‘76 (1911) - Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, and Edwin S. Porter Ben Hur (1907) - Sidney Olcott and Frank Oakes Rose","meta_description":"1911 really feels like the beginning of the feature film. Oh sure, it didn’t suddenly define the output of the global film industry, but ambitious experim…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":280,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/episodes/1911-e1-the-feature-begins/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535/1911-e1-the-feature-begins.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}