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Summary: Humanity at it's worst
Review: If you are looking for a feel good movie,well,this isn't it.This film shows the horrors and despair of one of the most infamous POW camps in the Civil War,Andersonville. Once again Ted Turner has the insight to bring the personalities of the soldiers into play. This is the same formula that made "Gettysburg" such a great film. If you want "light & breezy" don't watch this film. If you don't mind a hard dose of cruel reality that war brings,this flicks for you.
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Summary: Civil War Reality Check
Review: The Civil War has a lot of different meanings to a lot of people. Many of us know of the great battles such as Gettysburg and Antietam, but few remember the horrors of the Civil War prison camps. Andersonville brings that reality to life. More than 12,000 Union soldiers died at Andersonville in the short time it was open. Most died from disease and the lack of food or the unsanitary conditions they were forced to live with. Many were even killed by some of their own. This movie is straight forward and direct. There are no great battles depicted, no great charges or heroes leading an attack. There is only the brutal reality of life in a Civil War prison. The movie takes you inside the walls and almost makes you one of the inmates as you get caught up in the harsh conditions and the inhumanity. The Civil War was a great time in our history but it was also a terrible one too. Andersonville is definately a Civil War reality check. For anyone with an interest in the Civil War and who wants to know the good along with the bad, then this movie is a worthwhile purchase.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This is a great movie for teachers to show for a U.S. History class. I am a student that has recently watched this movie and has thouroughly enjoied it. It was very informational and entertaining. It tugs at your heart a little bit too. By showing how Prisoners Of War had to live like animals really made me more thankful of the things I have today.
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Summary: Andersonville - Words can't describe...
Review: We owe many thanks to those who had the heart to put this movie together and to get it right. There is nothing so harsh as reading about Andersonville. Though placing the viewer in the action and portraying the life and hostilities on television is excellent. There simply has never been a better production that captured the attrocities, horrors and nasty realities of prisoner life in the Civil War. The supply-ridden South and lack of prisoner humanity is certainly covered well through out this production. Naturally, no actor in this world can lose 100 pounds to be appear near death and sickened. I give credit to the movie for getting as close as they can to show emaciated individuals suffering day in and day out. How anyone lived or survived Andersonville is a miracle. See for yourself!
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Summary: Exciting story of adversity.
Review: Very good. Brings to a wider audience the facts about the Confederacy mistreating prisoners.Shame there's no comparable movie about the horrible conditions in Northern prisoner camps. Ah, well. Ted Turner would never allow that. I encourage everyone to read the book "Andersonville." Much better than the movie, which tends to oversimplify.
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Summary: Poor Historical Accuracy
Review: It appears that the producer/s of this particular film used quite a few unreliable sources in the production of this film. Capt. Henry Wirz is portrayed as the original nazi (he was a swiss immigrant), a shallow, sadistic man who had absolutely no concern about the wellfare of prisoners in his charge. The fact is that the horrendous conditions at Andersonville (Camp Sumter) were the product of southern war shortages, not the product of a psychopath. Moreover, the battle royal between the raiders and the regulators depicted in the film never happened. In reality, Sgt. Key's (Limber Jim) regulators arrested the raiders with the help of the confederate guards and the courts-martial occurred at the insistance of Wirz, not the prisoners. Finally, only 11 men are known to have been shot on the deadline. However, in the film, confederate guards are portrayed as indiscriminately shooting a prisoner for fun, implying that such shootings were common. All this might make for excellent film drama but, it is extremely poor history. So, what is good about this film? The movie does depict the stockade and the terrible living conditions within quite accurately. But if you want to learn what really happened at Andersonville, I suggest you invest your time in reading William Marvel's book Andersonville: The Last Depot.
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Summary: One of the best movies that I have ever seen
Review: TNT used to advertise itself as the best movie studio on tv or something like that. This movie is proof that this was no false claim. This is a great movie. I would rank it right up there with "Schindlers List".
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Summary: Marvelous!
Review: As a civil war reenactor and knowing that the majority of my regiment participated in this movie's filming, I consider this to be a civil war masterpiece! I have seen it at least a dozen times, and I still can pick out things that I've missed perviously...true, Captain Wirz may have acted nice on the outside, but how great of a person could he have been on the inside if he let the Union soldiers starve to death, get malaria from the piece of...stream, and let other union soldiers stab and beat the "Fresh Fish" to their deaths. If they had portrayed Wirz as a good mannered guy, it will seem fake and unrealistic. It was necessary to prove a point. Besides, it gives the Yanks someone else to hate!
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Summary: Human perserverance
Review: This move relays the hardships that captured POW'S had to face in vivid detail. The movie focuses on Andersonville, a camp set up by the Confederates to house Union POW'S. The conditions of this camp are unbelievable and the way some of the other people treat their fellow man is enough to make you want to cringe. The set detail makes you feel like you are really there. This was a tearjerker. Wonderful acting!!
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Summary: Andersonville was fantastic
Review: I enjoyed this movie greatly. I'm in 9th grade and we watched it in school recently. It showed a lot about what the civil war was like and all the suffering these men had to go through. And yes the confederates did have enough food and wirz was holding out so it was his fault that, that camp was so bad compared to the other ones. Why do u think they had a trial and hanged him for war crimes, let me tell you it wasn't cuz he was a nice man anyways I really don't know but this was a really good movie and I really recommend it to everyone because I'm not real big on the school thing but I loved this movie.
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