Yesterday I went to see the 85th anniversary of the movie "Gone with the Wind", with Vivian Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler. It was almost four hours long and it remains a true classic. I remember first seeing it in in 1964 when I was seven years old living in Mexico, and it had Spanish subtitles. My mother was from Texas and she told my Dad to takes us to the Palacio de Polanco to see it there. There were no multi-plexes in those days but single screen huge movie houses and we were all dressed up in our Sunday best clothes. I've seen it on TV several times since but you have to go to the big screen cinema to fully appreciate its epic scale.
By the way, the USA Civil War ended in 1865 and the movie first shown in 1939 or 74 years after the Civil War, so I saw it yesterday with a bigger gap than when the movie had with the war.