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So why are there no real good Vicksburg documentaries like there are with Gettysburg and other eastern battles? Frustrating....
I agree, and no movies either, unless you count 'The Horse Soldiers" but still Vicksburg is never portrayed. What dramatic subjects to choose from, and yet nothing is attempted. Maybe Ron Maxwell can do Jeff Sharra's "A Chain of Thunder" but Ted Turner's money would be needed. But, have you seen the Vicksburg documentary from the 1990's series 'The Unknown Civil War" it is pretty good, narrated by Stephen Lang. They have them on Ebay.So why are there no real good Vicksburg documentaries like there are with Gettysburg and other eastern battles? Frustrating....
I agree . Although there may be some Eastern Theater bias , long protracted battles and sieges aren't nearly as interesting to some as a relatively quick and decisive battle . I don't remember much done on Petersburg either .Speaking as an old documentary film maker who had ancestors at Vicksburg and did a documentary on Gettysburg in the early 70s, Vicksburg isn't that cinema graphic. A three day battle with massive charges and running horses is far more visual than months of slogging through a swamp and starving people hiding in caves.
Just a guess but wasnt it during the Vicksburg Campaign that Grant went on one of his famous Drinking Sprees? That would almost certainly have to be disclosed in a documentary.
TrueJust a guess but wasnt it during the Vicksburg Campaign that Grant went on one of his famous Drinking Sprees? That would almost certainly have to be disclosed in a documentary.
I still think it would be possible maybe if it was more about the citizens and how the war turned their lives upside down.Speaking as an old documentary film maker who had ancestors at Vicksburg and did a documentary on Gettysburg in the early 70s, Vicksburg isn't that cinema graphic. A three day battle with massive charges and running horses is far more visual than months of slogging through a swamp and starving people hiding in caves.