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65% Critic Match
Andersonville
“The great untold story of the American Civil War.”
6.5 / 10• 1996• 2h 47m•NR• English
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Storyline
This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and shipped to the camp in southern Georgia. A private, Josiah Day, and his sergeant try to hold their company together in the face of squalid living conditions, inhumane punishments, and a gang of predatory fellow prisoners called the Raiders.
Cast & Crew
JE
Jarrod Emick
Josiah Day
Lead
Frederic Forrest
Sgt. McSpadden
Ted Marcoux
Martin Blackburn
Carmen Argenziano
Hopkins
Frederick Coffin
Collins
Cliff DeYoung
Sgt. John Gleason
William H. Macy
Col. Chandler
William Sanderson
Munn
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. John Frankenheimer's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Andersonville is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
