Sherman's March (1985)

Name: Sherman's March (1985)
Duration: 2 h 37 min

2hr 37m

4.0/5 (2.8K)

2hr 37m
4.0/5 (2.8K)

Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps… More Details »

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Director:

Ross McElwee

Runtime:

2hr 37m

Synopsis

Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.

Cast

Ross McElwee
Dede McElwee
Ross McElwee Jr.
Patricia Rendleman
Ann McElwee
Mary
Lee
Tom McElwee
Claudia
Ashley

Letterboxd User Reviews

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RATINGS 241 FANS

4.0

Jul 7, 2026

googled "blood-sucking conenose," which I don't recommend. they can kill you! imagine being down so bad for a linguist you're willing to co-habitat with that many bugs and she still won't sleep with you. that's romance. movie is about how amazing women are <3

252 Likes

fran hoepfner

Aug 14, 2022

Single Lens Reflects The godfather of the John Wilson/Nathan Fielder observant/autobiographical/autocritique documentary style. Perhaps more than anything it captures aspects of the South that screenwriters from New York and L.A. often miss (like just how much weirder…

250 Likes

laird

Jul 19, 2015

male gaze: the movie

206 Likes

Cosmo Salovaara
Jan 22, 2022

what Ross McElwee is too canny to say, in maintaining his fumbling neurotic underdog persona, is that in retracing Sherman's campaign through the South he has also become him, returning from the North to the region he once loved, and blazing his own trail through it by way…

181 Likes

Mark Asch

Feb 3, 2020

The perfect midpoint between All That Jazz and Beaver Trilogy, two works that are so extraordinarily different that I never even considered the possibility of a midpoint between them existing. Of course, the stakes aren’t particularly high- McElwee isn’t self-destructive or…

112 Likes

Evan “Raymond Gun-Virus” Pincus

Jan 7, 2019

A man chronicles himself floundering with women for almost three hours. We all lead our own Sherman’s March.

111 Likes

Joel Haver
Jul 17, 2026

“What can I do to make myself less perfect?”insane movie, one of the best documentaries i’ve ever seen and one of the most genuinely invasive and personal records ever filmed of a person/the people they love/the people that love them. every time Ross passes by a mirror and…

87 Likes

coffee

Apr 29, 2025

Insane, brilliant, hilariously self-indulgent, and horny as hell. After watching as many of his docs as I could find at my college’s film library, I found McElwee’s email address and wrote to say how much his work meant to 20-year-old me. He responded nearly a year later,…

87 Likes

Bobby Finger

Jul 2, 2014

McElwee becomes more tolerable as he lets the other figures in the documentary speak, but as has been the case in the previous films I've seen by him, his personality seems to be one that grates on me. I don't think he will ever win me over, but it's worth noting that this…

84 Likes

Sally Jane Black