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| name           = The Hero's Journey: A Biographical Portrait
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| director       = William Free<br />Janelle Balnicke
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| released       = {{Film date|1987}}
| runtime        = 58 minutes
| country        = United States
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'''''The Hero's Journey''''' is a 1987 [[biography]] of [[mythologist]] [[Joseph Campbell]] (1904–1987), directed by Janelle Balnicke and David Kennard. In the years just before his death, Campbell was filmed in conversation with his friends and colleagues, discussing his own life and career in terms of the myths that he studied throughout his life.<ref>{{cite news |title=Film: 'Hero's Journey,' Documentary|author=Janet Maslin|author-link=Janet Maslin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/04/movies/film-hero-s-journey-documentary.html |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=December 4, 1987  }}</ref>
The conversations in the film led to the book, ''[[The Hero's Journey (book)|The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work]]'' (1990).<ref>{{cite book |title=The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on his life and work |author=Phil Cousineau|author2=Stuart L. Brown |author-link=Phil Cousineau |publisher=New World Library|year=2003|isbn=1-57731-404-2 |page=x |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2wnmb50GJfsC&q=The+Hero%27s+Journey+1987+film&pg=PR10 }}</ref>
==See also==
* [[The Hero's Journey (book)|''The Hero's Journey'' (book)]]
==References==
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* [https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808737190/info ''The Hero's Journey''] at ''[[Yahoo! Movies]]''
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0093183}}
* [http://www.mythsdreamssymbols.com/heroinfilm.html ''The Hero's Journey'', Excerpts]
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