With the home video release of Argo just weeks away, a 28-minute video featurette for the film entitled “Declassified” has been released.
The presumed frontrunner for the Academy Awards at the end of the month, Argo has a nice and timely home video release of February 19, just five days before the Oscars. Take a look at the featurette, a special in-depth look at the real events that inspired the movie, below:
For anyone who hasn’t yet seen Argo, the film, directed by Ben Affleck, chronicles the true story behind the life-or-death mission by the CIA to free six american hostages in the revolutionary 1980 Iran by posing as a film crew.
We wrote in our review:
There’s something about mixing a thriller with “based on a true story” that shouldn’t work. The inherently thrilling aspects of most films lie in the unknown. It is for this reason that Argo is so marvelous; it’s a film that will have you on the edge of your seat throughout, regardless of whether you know the outcome or not.
Argo is nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, with the awards air February 24 at 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST on ABC.
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