1 videodiscs (ca. 120 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in.
"Based on the declassified true story"--Container.
Based on a selection from 'The master of disguise' by Antonio J. Mendez and the Wired magazine article 'The great escape' by Joshuah Bearman.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2012.
Title from container.
Music by Alexandre Desplat ; director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; edited by William Goldenberg.
Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, John Goodman, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy.
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Armed with foreign film visas, Mendez and an unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect scenery and backdrops, the team succeeded in contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran without a single shot being fired.
Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.
Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback); widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; DTS HD 5.1 surround.
DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
For private home use only.
Audio tracks and subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
1.Mendez, Antonio J.--Fiction.1.Diplomats--United States--History--20th century--Fiction.2.Feature films.3.Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Fiction.4.Motion pictures--Production and direction--Fiction.5.Thrillers (Motion pictures)Dynamic Details