Poster for Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
Film

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films

Dir. Bret Wood·2003·1h 31m

This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involving traffic safety by the Highway Safety Foundation under direction of Richard Wayman. In the name of promoting safe driving in teenagers, these films became notorious for their gory depiction of accidents to shock their audiences to make their point. The film also covers the role of safety films of this era, their effect on North American teenage culture, the struggle between idealism and lurid exploitation and how they reflected the larger society concerns of the time that adults projected onto their youth.

Risocast
Logged by@user
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003)

Bret Wood

Saved to Library
1h 31m
Cross-source blend ~57/100

At a glance

Countries

United States of America

Ratings

TMDB users

5.7/10

12 votes

Rating consensus

57/100 blend

Sources: TMDB

Moderate-to-positive blended read — weighted ~57/100 across 1 rating source. The listed meters mostly agree.

Cast

John P. Butler

Self

Earle Deems

Self

John R. Domer

Self

David Krug

Self

Eric Krug

Self

Rick Prelinger

Self

Mike Vraney

Self

James Waller

Self

Bret Wood

Self

Martin Yant

Self

Helena Reckitt

Narrator

Richard Anderson

Husband (archive footage)

Community Ledger

No logs yet — yours would be the first on Risocast.

Rating--
Risocast
Logged by@user
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003)

Bret Wood

Saved to Library

Similar films & shows

From TMDB’s similar-title graph — shared genres, tone, cast, or who also watched this.