War · Drama
Andersonville
The great untold story of the American Civil War.
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.
Top Cast
Jarrod Emick
Josiah Day
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
Directed by
John Frankenheimer
Production
Turner Network TelevisionReviews
John Chard
8/107/24/2016
And what do you call this little piece of heaven? The American Civil War, and Union soldiers are imprisoned at Andersonville, a crude stockade establishment presided over by the inept and cruel Captain Henry Wirz. It would prove to be a another dark and soul destroying chapter from the war. Lets get it out there right away, Andersonville was not the only hell hole prison operating during the American Civil War. Information from both sides of the coin is available on line for those wishing to explore further. That said, Andersonville is a story that deserved and is needed to be told, and this John Frankenheimer directed two - parter brings it vividly into the viewers' lives. In filmic substance terms it has all the standard POW movie cliche's. We follow a group of prisoners and a g
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