The US civil war epic Gone With the Wind has been dropped from HBO Max, the streaming service recently launched by Warner Bros as a rival to Netflix and Disney+, after protests over its depiction of slavery.
However, African American writers and activists objected to its depiction of passive, compliant slaves, and sentimentalised depiction of the south before the civil war.
Released in 1939, Gone With the Wind won eight Oscars (and two honorary awards) and was a commercial hit in the US and elsewhere.
HBO responded with a statement, which said: “These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible.”