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Catalogue Number: 041671
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: History, Social Issues
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2013
Running Time: 60
American Experience: War of the Worlds
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Catalogue Number: 041671
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: History, Social Issues
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2013
Running Time: 60
Relive Orson Welles' infamous radio dramatization 75 years after the mass hysteria event it spawned. The film examines the elements that made America ripe for the hoax: America's longtime fascination with life on Mars; the emergence of radio as a powerful new medium; the shocking Hindenburg explosion of 1937; and Welles himself, the 23 - year-old wunderkind director of the drama and mischief - maker supreme.
Available November 2013.
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