Premiere of Gone With the Wind

Date: December 15, 1939 • Location: Atlanta, United States

The American historical epic film Gone With the Wind, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Epic films are films which have large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle. The term is slightly ambiguous, sometimes designating a film genre and at other times simply big-budget films. Like epics in the classical literary sense, an epic film is often focused on a heroic character. An epic's ambitious nature helps to set it apart from other genres such as the period piece or adventure film.