Product Details

• Actors: Len Cariou
• Directors: Charles Guggenheim Four-Time Academy Award® Winner
• Format: Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC, Surround Sound
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Guggenheim Productions Inc.®
• DVD Release Date: May 31, 1989
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 193323301X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,516 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Film on the Flood of 1889, April 13, 2010

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Catholic Family (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Johnstown Flood - Academy Award ® Winner (DVD)

Our family saw this film while visiting the Johnstown Flood Museum. It mixes rare footage with recreated scenes to vividly tell the story of what happened in May of 1889. Although short in length, this is an exceptionally well crafted documentary film that places you in the midst of a tragic event in U.S. history. It kept the attention of even our youngest children for the full 30 minutes and we all came away with a better understanding of the unfortunate events that contributed to the flood.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two Versions of This excellent Documentary Exist, February 27, 2011

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Johnstown Flood - Academy Award ® Winner (DVD)

This 30 minute film won the Academy Award in 1989, the Centennial Year commemorating The Johnstown Flood. The Johnstown Flood was the worst civilian disaster in the United States prior to 9-11-2001. 2,209 people died that day. The longer extended version of the film is available from the Charles Guggenheim web site, but only for schools to purchase. I own that American Experience film, and it is better because Charles Guggenheim was given, some time after the 30 minute film sold here, a set of photographs depicting the life in the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, whose negelct and indifference to the South Fork Dam caused it to fail, destroying Johnstown, Pennsylvania on May 31st, 1889. Mr. Guggenheim incorporated the newly found photographs to better illustrate the story, in that extended version of this film, that I first viewed on the TV broadcast of the American Experience. If you can acquire that longer version of this film, you will be one of a rare few who can view it today, as it is not for sale anywhere else, and not for sale here. Even the Johnstown Flood Museum does not sell that extended version of this film, which is a shame. There is new Johnstown Flood documentary narrated by the actor Richard Dryfuss, and it has been sanitized of any refernce to or blame on the part of the South Fork Fishing & Hunting Club, so I threw it away after making the mistake of buying a copy. This film, and the extended version of this film are vastly superior to that waste of effort.

This is a uniquely American story and it is an important part of American History. It was the first time the American Red Cross distinguished itself in a civilian disaster, and it helped establish that organization for the role we know it for today over a century later. I highly recommend this film, and that you visit Both the South Fork dam site and the Johnstown Flood Museum in Johnstown, PA if you travel near western Pennsylvania.