Kamis, 31 Agustus 2017

America’s Civil War Review: Andersonville

Directed by John Frankenheimer Andersonville, undoubtedly the Confederacy’s most notorious prison camp, has been the subject of fiction, nonfiction, stage plays and films. This 1996 effort, a Turner Broadcasting System original directed by the acclaimed John Frankenheimer, ranks about in the middle for credibility and historical accuracy. By early June 1864, when the action opens, …

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