Gettysburg

The ultimate dad movie.

John Earling

The Heaven's Gate of war movies, though whilst Michael Cimino's western can be accused of self-indulgence and hubristic intent, it's much more difficult to say the same about Ronald F. Maxwell's Civil War epic, a film so sincere, authentic and historically accurate that it…

James

With all due respect to Gone With the Wind and several other films, Gettysburg is just in a class to itself among Civil War movies in my opinion. It’s nearly impossible for me to carve out the time to watch the 4 1/2 hour movie all at once now but my enjoyment of the film…

Brennan

Soooo Long but soooo good.  How can this Jeff Daniels be the same Jeff Daniels from Dumb and Dumber?

Essay

"Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came because it was the right thing to do." Epic Civil War drama about The Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, any over four-hour film often screams self-indulgence but Gettysburg, released twenty-five years ago, uses…

🐱Andrew Chrzanowski🐱

This is a review of the director's cut version Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: America should be free ground, all of it, not divided by a line between slave states and free - all the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to…

Katalas

This would be a great movie to show in middle school history class because it’s the schmaltziest distillation of every single tired civil war trope into one massive movie. The re-enactments themselves were very entertaining but interspersed were long expanses of…

Alex Franco

I love war films and I hate war films. I love the heroics, men rising to a challenge, and extreme situations, but man, I really hate the needless deaths. The US Civil War, in particular, was horrific in the number of deaths, and the fact that friends and family fought each…

RetroHound

This epic American Civil War film runs more than four hours and is often shown on television in multi-parts, which is how I watched it today. In the UK we are not that au fait with the events of Gettysburg or other battles as we don't study them at school. When I…

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