Blu-ray, DVD Release: Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 4, 2025
Price: DVD $49.95, Blu-ray $54.99
Studio: Film Movement

This week, Film Movement issues the wildly popular 1988 PBS series Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers for the first time ever on Blu-ray.

In the, mythologist and storyteller Joseph Campbell joins acclaimed journalist Moyers to explore what enduring myths can tell us about our lives.

In each of six episodes recorded at Skywalker Ranch and New York’s American Museum of Natural History – “The Hero’s Adventure,” “The Message of the Myth,” “The First Storytellers,” “Sacrifice and Bliss,” “Love and the Goddess,” and “Masks of Eternity” — Moyers and Campbell focus on a character or theme found in cultural and religious mythologies. In conversations that span millennia and cover the far reaches of the globe, the two discuss how myths are clues to the spiritual core of human nature, while touching on such diverse topics as religion, folklore and pop culture.

The Blu-ray (2 Discs). and DVD (3 Discs) editions contain the following features: 

  • Bill Moyers’ Journal episodes: Joseph Campbell: Myths to Live By – Part 1 and Part 2
  • The Mythology of Star Wars with Bill Moyers and George Lucas (55-minute featurette)
  • 24-page companion booklet featuring an extremely rare essay by Joseph Campbell, plus additional reading materials from the Joseph Campbell Foundation
Buy or Rent Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.