Landmark Works

Gone with the Wind

Sound Film

Citation Formats

General Reference

Film and Media Atlas. "Gone with the Wind." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://media.interactiveatlas.org/works/gone-with-the-wind.

APA Style

Film and Media Atlas. (n.d.). Gone with the Wind. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://media.interactiveatlas.org/works/gone-with-the-wind

BibTeX

@misc{filmandmediaatlas-gone-with-the-wind,
  author = {Film and Media Atlas},
  title = {Gone with the Wind},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://media.interactiveatlas.org/works/gone-with-the-wind},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

David O. Selznick's 1939 Civil War epic, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's novel and shot in three-strip Technicolor, follows Scarlett O'Hara through the fall of the antebellum South and Reconstruction. It became the highest-earning film made up to that point and held the domestic box-office record for over a quarter of a century, and was the first color film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its sympathetic treatment of the Confederacy and its plantation slaveholders is now widely criticized, and the film is presented today, including by its own distributor, with that history acknowledged rather than endorsed.

Facts

Release Year

1939 1

Country

United States 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Created By

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Produced by David O. Selznick under an August 1938 deal giving MGM the distribution rights, released through Loew's Incorporated, MGM's corporate parent; MGM also handled the film's 1942, 1947 and 1954 re-releases.

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