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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


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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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