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Gettysburg is a big hit
Gettysburg, perhaps the most well known battle of The American Civil War, is an amazing movie to every history buff. The movie Gettysburg is created from the book The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. With a great cast and story it is not even a question why I gave Gettysburg five stars. This movie shifts from Union to Confederate sides showing plans of attack and reason of fighting the war. The battles are present through the entire length of this movie. As all three days of the battle are shown it is an incredible site to see especially the final day. Picketts' charge is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. The speeches provide courage and bravery for the men as they walk into Union ground accross an open field.

Gettysburg=GREAT!
This movie has a star studed cast with names like Martin Sheen who plays a very good Rober E. Lee. Tom Berenger plays the role of the unsure James Lonfstreet. Not to mention Jeff Daniels playing the part of Joshua Chamberlain who leads a bayonet charge down Little Round Top. There are many other characters such as Sam Elliot as General Buford. With great music, acting, and the greatest battle secenes this makes for one hack of a movie!

History Comes Alive
"Gettysburg" represents that rare occasion in the movies where the filmmakers are painstaking in their attempts to get all of their facts right and still make a watchable movie. And though you can quibble about a few of the dtetails, they succeed quite well. The movie is based on the hugely popular novel, "The Killer Angles," which placed dialog in the mouths of the leaders who fought the battle and breathed life back into the legends. The movies is quite faithful to the book, and places its emphasis on Maine Colonel Joshua Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) as well as Confedrate Generals Lee (Martin Sheen) and Longstreet (Tom Berriger).

The DVD version of the movie places the whole 254 minutes on one double-sided disk. The film looks terrific and there are a number of extras, including a "Making Of" sequence and a documentary of the battle itself. There are also battlefield maps to help the viewer and audio commentary by the filmakers. If you add it all up, it makes for one great package for any devoted Civil War buff and even those less committed who merely want to understand their history better.

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