Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Wgbh Boston
• VHS Release Date: March 28, 2000
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• ASIN: B00000F0P7
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,307 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Educational public performance rights are now available! By the mid-1920s, millions are already confirmed "moviegoers." Movies reflected and affected the way people dressed, thought and spoke, teaching the inexperienced about love, courage—and the proper cut of a Western suit. And governments around the globe were quick to realize the power of film: this new mass entertainment would also prove an unrivaled tool of mass persuasion.

In Great Escape, moviegoers remember how film persuaded and influenced, enthralled, seduced, and entertained them—and offered a welcome refuge from the century's pressures and tempo.

The people remember: silent movies, Charlie Chaplin, movie palaces, Hollywood stars, American musicals and westerns, WWII propaganda films.