Gone with the Wind has been restored to US streaming service HBO Max with a disclaimer after it was temporarily removed earlier this month over concerns about its "racist depictions".
The multi-Oscar-winning 1939 movie set during the American Civil War is now accompanied by two videos which say the classic film "denies the horrors of slavery".
The film was temporarily removed from the steaming service after John Ridley, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave, criticised its portrayal of the pre-Civil War American South.
Writing in the LA Times, he said it was "a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of colour".
In a statement HBO said: "These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible."
The film has now returned to HBO Max, accompanied by two videos discussing its historical context.
One clip features TV host and film scholar Jacqueline Stewart, who acknowledges Gone with the Wind as "one of most enduringly popular films of all time" but notes its depiction of African American people was controversial even at release.
"Producer David O Selznick was well aware that black audiences were deeply concerned about the film's handling of the topic of slavery and its treatment of black characters," she said.
Despite producer Selznick assuring African American viewers that the film would sensitively handle their concerns, Stewart said Gone with the Wind instead presents "the Antebellum South as a world of grace and beauty without acknowledging the brutalities of the system of chattel slavery upon which this world is based".
She added: "The film’s treatment of this world through a lens of nostalgia denies the horrors of slavery, as well as its legacies of racial inequality."
The second video is an hour-long panel discussion debating Gone With the Wind’s "complicated legacy".
