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The films "Gone With The Wind" and “Glory” directed by David Selznich and Edward Zwick respectively, discuss similar themes. These are both film classics and important movies based on the American Civil War. There are many different themes and issues raised in both movies and the messages presented vary in purpose. “Gone With The Wind” is a movie that was created with a vision for entertainment and is a classic tale of a love-hate romance set before and during the civil war. “Glory” however, was made with the purpose to inspire, inform and educate society of the crucial involvement of the Black-American soldiers during the American Civil War. "Gone With The Wind" is the most beloved, enduring and most popular film of all time with three years of advanced publicity and Hollywood myth-making, three and a half hours running time (with an intermission) and a gala premiere on 15 December 1939 in Atlanta. The highest-grossing film status and the use of Technicolor (the 11th movie ever to use this), the film was a blockbuster in its own time. "Gone With The Wind" is an historical epic, a classical tale of a love-hate romance during the American Civil War with many issues such as birth, death and the recreation of a civilisation. It is a story of jealousy, greed, persistence, obsession and the love of a land. The determined heroine, Scarlett O’Hara struggles to find love during the Civil War years and afterwards, seeks refuge for herself and her family at the much-loved plantation ‘Tara’.
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