Originally produced for television broadcast in 1988. Bonus features include: interview with George Lucas; biographies; bibliographies; art gallery; chapter indexes; trailer; weblinks.

Disc 1. Hero's adventure -- Message of the myth -- First storytellers -- Disc 2. Sacrifice and bliss -- Love and the goddess --Masks of eternity.

Original music composed by Richard Peaslee ; Cameramen, A.J. Foresta, Joel Shapiro, David Grubin ; videotape editors, Leonard Feinstein, Girish Bhagava, Bill Stephen ; graphics animation, Paul Srp

Taped at the library of Lucasfilm, Skywalker Ranch, San Rafael, California [and] the American Museum of Natural History, New York in summers of 1986 and 1987.

Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell discuss the themes and roots of human myth which is seen as man's attempt to relate himself to the universe. Starting with various topics Campbell shows both how man creates his universe and is controlled by the myth he has created.

DVD

Closed-captioned.