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Andersonville

The great untold story of the American Civil War.

1996 · NR · 2h 47m

Directed by John Frankenheimer

6.5

TMDB audience score
53 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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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

  • Matt McGrath
    Ethan

  • Jan Tříska
    Cap. Henry Wirz