Gettysburg
Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes
north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. Two
great armies will clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For
three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and
Pickett's Charge, the fate of "one nation, indivisible" hangs in the
balance.
The bloodiest battle fought on American soil comes to
the screen in a powerful production "about the strategies, calculations,
mistakes and heroism that turned the tide of the Civil War--a film
Civil War buffs will find indispensible" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).
Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Richard Jordan and more play
key roles in this magnificent epic based on Michael Shaara's Pulitzer
Prize-winning The Killer Angels, filmed at actual battle locations and rigorously authenticated down to the boots.
Gods and Generals
Based
on Jeffrey M. Shaara's bestseller, God's and Generals recounts the
fierce allegiances and combat of the early Civil War. Ronald F. Maxwell
directs this epic prequel to his Gettysburg, framing the story with
three bold men and three fateful battles. The men: Joshua Chamberlain
(Jeff Daniels), "Stonewall" Jackson (Stephen Lang), Robert E. Lee
(Robert Duvall). The battles: Manassas, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville. Through these combatants and conflicts we witness the
bravery and strife of a nation at war with itself.