1 I. History i. No one movie is likely to change a viewer's mind about the world.
Visual images can often be far more powerful than words.
The same is true today. Movies and mass media most impact us in the areas we know the least about. For all our skepticism about the mass media, most of us rely on film, television, radio, and newspapers for our knowledge of the world. Seeing should not always be equated with believing. During the Gulf War, millions of people saw American Patriot missiles destroying Iraqi Scud missiles with enormous success.