Drama · War · Romance
American
1939 · Directed by Victor Fleming · 238 min
Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, fixes her heart on a man who is promised to someone else. As the American Civil War reaches her door, she meets a charming, cynical opportunist who sees through her. A four-hour Technicolor saga of romance, war and survival.
Why it matters in cinema history
A culminating film of the Hollywood studio system and its most successful producer-led epic. It also stands as the best-known example of the romantic Southern myth in American cinema, which later films and critics have had to answer.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a masterclass in studio craft, and ask whose version of history the glamour is built to make you feel.
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