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Gettysburg

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Gettysburg
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NR,4hrs 8min
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Release:
1993
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Synopsis: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara becomes this sprawling historical epic. As in Shaara's novel, director Ronald Maxwell focuses on a handful of major players to dramatize the events of July 1863, when the armies of the Union and Confederacy clash at the small Pennsylvania town of the title. Among them are Martin Sheen as General Robert E. Lee, who disagrees with his top advisor, General James Longstreet (Tom Berenger) over battle strategy, and Jeff Daniels as Colonel ... Full Synopsis
Critics' Reviews
This television miniseries is the type of film that Hollywood rarely makes anymore in an era of budget consciousness, a war epic with a cast of thousands. Like the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel upon which it's based, the film restricts its dramatization to the battlefield and surrounding area (no cutaways to President Lincoln fretting at the White House here) and focuses on a handful of major players. ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Robert E. Lee, General Robert E.Lee
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Lieutenant General James Longstreet
Maj.Gen.George E. Pickett
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