__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
The best of all of them: The Red Badge of Courage and Glory. Gettysburg and Gods and Generals were nice. The other good ones were dramas or romances set in a Civil War theme. I've been partial to Shenandoah and do enjoy giggling at The Horse Soldiers. I draw a line between a "civil war movie" and a movie with a civil war setting. Sometimes the line is blurred, but I don't consider The Outlaw Josie Wales, or Friendly Persuasion and the like to be "civil war movies." Good stuff, but not in the league with Glory, Gettysburg or Godawfuls and Generals.
For telling it like it was, it's hard to beat The Red Badge of Courage.
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Right now I am picking Gods and Generals. I do not really watch to many movies or T.V. for that matter. I like Shenanadoah (the ending is my all time favorite) and Out Law Josey Wells but I agree with Ole that these are really not Civil War movies. The only other movie of the time period that remember watching was Gone With the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Oh sorry dosed off.
Andersonville because my great-grandfather spent the summer of 1864 there and survived.
The Red Badge Of Courage as mentioned above is very good and it is the Civil War film I show my students, even though it is fictionalized. They also read the novel by Crane.
__________________ "Those who forget to remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana.
Andersonville was gritty. Forgot about it. The lists coming up always bring up something I forgot about. For example, Ride with the Devil. Don't think I ever saw that one. Who was in it and what was it about? I gave my copy of Red Badge to a niece. I can't resist a kid who reads. Gave her my Lord of the Flies, as well. I can get another. Meanwhile, I will cheerfully give all my books to the kid who reads. We can fear the future in their hands, but I know a couple or three I can trust with it. I gave them books.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
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