Andersonville

Mar 3, 1996

2h 47m

★ 6.5

The great untold story of the American Civil War.

Overview

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.

Genres

War

Drama

TV Movie

History

Production Companies

Turner Pictures (I)

Turner Network Television

Gideon Productions

Andersonville Trailers

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Cast

Josiah Day

Jarrod Emick

Sgt. McSpadden

Frederic Forrest

Martin Blackburn

Ted Marcoux

Hopkins

Carmen Argenziano

Collins

Frederick Coffin

Sgt. John Gleason

Cliff DeYoung

Col. Chandler

William H. Macy

Munn

William Sanderson

Ethan

Matt McGrath

Cap. Henry Wirz

Jan Tříska

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