Introduction: what were the sixties? -- Before the revolution. World cinema in the 1950s -- Criticism and culture -- The new cinemas. New cinemas, new politics -- Sex and censorship -- Outside the studio -- Documentary, cinema verite, and the "new American cinema" -- Technological innovations: colour, wide screen, the zoom lens -- Narrative -- New cinemas, national cinemas -- Movements. Britain: from kitchen sink to swinging London -- France: from nouvelle vague to May '68 -- Italy -- From Polish School to Czech New Wave and beyond -- Latin America -- Four auteurs. Young Godard -- Antonioni -- Pasolini -- Oshima -- Conclusion