Gods and generals [videorecording] / Ted Turner Pictures presents a Antietam Filmworks production of a Ron Maxwell film ; in association with Exparza/Katz Productions, Rehme Productions, Inc., Mace Neufeld Productions ; producer, Ronald F. Maxwell ; written for the screen and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell.
Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Mira Sorvino, Kevin Conway, C. Thomas Howell, Frankie Faison, Jeremy London, Bruce Boxleitner. Based on the novel by Jeff Shaara. Special features: introduction by Ted Turner; commentary by director Ron Maxwell, Colonel Keith E. Gibson, executive director of the Virginia Military Institute Museum and James I. Robertson Jr.; "Journey to the past" BET special; life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson; making-of featurette; Bob Dylan's "Cross the Green Mountain" music video; Mary Fahl's "Going home" music video; theatrical trailer. DVD-ROM features: original website including production and historical notes; interactive activities; Civil war links; and more. Dual-layer format.
Summary:
Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson, and Lee are followed through the declaration of war and the battles at Manassas, Antietam, Frederickburg, and Chancellorsville.
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