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Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films Blu-ray explores the shocking world of mid-century driver education films through a gripping documentary lens.
 
Focusing on graphic safety films produced between the 1950s and 1970s, the documentary uncovers how real crash footage and disturbing imagery were used to scare students into safe driving. Once shown in classrooms across America, these films later vanished—gaining a cult reputation for their raw and unsettling content.
 
Featuring interviews with the filmmakers behind these controversial productions and newly restored archival footage, this release offers a fascinating look at a forgotten chapter of educational cinema.
 
directed by: Bret Wood
starring: Sonny Bono, Richard Prelinger, Hans Conried
2003 / 92 min / 1.78:1 / English

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films [Blu-ray] - Pre-Order 7/7

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Expected to ship on or around the release date: July 7, 2026.

  • BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

    • Audio commentary by Bret Wood
    • New restorations of Mechanized Death, Wheels of Tragedy and Highways of Agony
    • Complete 2003 pre-restoration version
    • Bonus classroom scare films: The Child Molester (1964), Death on the Highway (1959), Go, Sober and Safe (1966), The Last Date (1950), Options to Live (1979), The Shoplifter (1964), Teenicide (1950)
    • Trailers
    • Deleted scenes

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