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Gettysburg (Widescreen Edition)
: :Depicts the famous Civil War battle which was the turning point of the war.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: BERENGER/DANIELS/SHEENTitle: GETTYSBURGStreet Release Date: 06/21/2005DomesticGenre: ACTION / ADVENTURE essential video:Three days in the summer of 1863, at a place called Gettysburg. Although it received a theatrical release, this four-hour depiction of the bloody Civil War battle was shot as a made-for-television film. But no taint of cheapness or shortcuts should stick to this magnificent picture (well, except maybe for those ...
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The Outlaw Josey Wales
:Description:Josey Wales is a farmer turned fugitive in the post-civil war south who is chased by the law after he avenges the murder of his family and friends.DVD Features:Introduction:Introduction by Clint Eastwood Other:'Hell Hath No Fury' - 30:25 'Eastwood in Action' - 7:45 essential video:Clint Eastwood fired the original director, Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff), and took over the reins of this project himself. He may have had a point: this brutal, thoughtful western, a near-tragedy about a Civil War ...
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Friendly Persuasion
:Description:For two years the Civil War has been elsewhere. Now Confederate forces are nearby, looting and burning. It is time to fight back, Jess Birdwell's neighbors insist. Yet Birdwell, a Quaker, knows there must be a better way to settle things. Year: 1956 Director: William Wyler Starring: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire
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Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
: :Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War Lt. John Dunbar (Costner) wants to see the American Frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an abandoned fort where a Sioux tribe is his only neighbor. Overcoming the language barrier and their mutual fear and distrust Dunbar and the proud Indians gradually become friends. Eventually he falls in love with the beautiful Stands With A Fist (McDonnell) a white woman raised by the tribe. He learns the culture of ...
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Glory
: :Story of the first Black regiment to fight in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Genre: Feature Film-Action/AdventureRating: RRelease Date: 1-FEB-2005Media Type: DVD :One of the very best films about the Civil War, this instant classic from 1989 is also one of the few films to depict the participation of African American soldiers in Civil War combat. Based in part on the books Lay This Laurel by Lincoln Kirstein and One Gallant Rush by Peter Burchard, the film also ...
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Dances with Wolves (Full Screen Theatrical Edition)
:Description:A 'truly spectacular' (The New York Times) film that combines action, romance and breathtaking adventure, Dances With Wolves is 'a cinematic masterpiece' (American Movie Classics) that is nothing short of 'a triumph' (Roger Ebert)!Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the ...
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Shenandoah
: :Shenandoah, a film well-liked in its day, recalls Friendly Persuasion and foreshadows The Patriot as it tells of an American clan traumatized by war on native soil. Virginia farmer James Stewart has never owned slaves, owes allegiance to no one beyond his own kin, and adamantly disregards the North-South strife rumbling just over the hill: 'This war is not mine and I take no note of it.' That changes when youngest son Philip Alford (To Kill a Mockingbird's Jem) is carried ...
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The Horse Soldiers
: :John Wayne teams with William Holden and eminent western director John Ford for the frontier actioner 'packed with laughter romance and thrills' (The Hollywood Reporter)! Written by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin this faithful representation of one of the most daring cavalry exploits in history is both a moving tribute to the men who fought and died in that bloody war and a powerful action-packed drama.Based on an actual Civil War incident The Horse Soldiers tells the rousing tale ...
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Andersonville
:Description:They left the nightmare...and entered Hell. Captured Union soilders cope with life inside the Civil War's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. A powerful, compeling tale of war and will, with Emmy Award-winning direction by John Frankenheimer and a cast including Frederic Forrest (Apocalypse Now) and William H. Macy (ER, Fargo) Year: 1996 Director: John Frankenheimer Starring: Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux
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The Blue and the Gray (The Complete Miniseries)
: :Before Ken Burns, Glory, and Gettysburg, the Civil War proved an effective backdrop for this 1982 miniseries--available complete and uncut on this three-disc set--about two families divided by the War Between the States. John Hammond stars as John Geyser, a Southerner caught 'betwixt and between' when he becomes a war correspondent for the Northern newspaper published by his uncle. Like a Civil War-era Forrest Gump, he finds himself 'where history's in the making,' from the Battle of Bull Run to the ...
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