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Civil War buff Ted Turner (who has a cameo as a Confederate soldier) originally intended Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Killer Angels" to be adapted as a three-part miniseries for his "TNT" network, but the lure of the big screen prevailed, marking the first time the battle has been committed to film and the first time a film crew has been allowed to film battle scenes on the Gettysburg National Military Park battlefield. The greatest battle of the war and the bloodiest in U.S. history is realistically staged by more than 5,000 Civil War re-enactors. The all-male cast concentrates on presenting the human cost of the war, with Daniels particularly noteworthy as the scholarly Colonel Chamberlain, determined to hold Little Round Top for the Union. Last film role for Jordan, to whom the movie is co-dedicated. The full scale recreation of Pickett's Charge is believed to be the largest period scale motion-picture sequence filmed in North America since D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation."
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Run Time:
254 minutes
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PG - Parental Guidance Suggested
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Starring:
Tom Berenger,
Jeff Daniels,
Martin Sheen,
Sam Elliott,
Maxwell Caulfield,
Kevin Conway,
C. Thomas Howell,
Richard Jordan,
Stephen Lang,
James Lancaster,
Andrew Prine,
Royce D. Applegate,
Brian Mallon,
Ken Burns,
Ted Turner,
Cooper Huckabee,
Bo Brinkman,
Kieran Mulroney,
Ivan Kane,
Warren Burton,
MacIntyre Dixon,
George Lazenby,
Alex Harvey,
John Diehl,
John Rothman,
Richard Anderson,
Billy Campbell,
David Carpenter,
Donal Logue,
Dwier Brown,
Mark Moses,
Patrick Gorman,
William Morgan Sheppard,
James Patrick Stuart,
Tim Ruddy,
Joseph Fuqua
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Color
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No
Format:
VHS, CC, Wide, DVD
Distributor:
Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc.
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