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Grim.Reaper -> American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/15/2010 4:43:31 PM)

After reviewing the Gods and General thread, this has gotten me back in the mood for good Civil War movies and was curious on recommendations from this group. I have pretty much seen the following so interested in others I may have missed.

- Gettysburg
- Gods and Generals
- Blue and the Gray
- Glory
- Andersonville
- North and South
- Hunley
- Red Badge of Courage
- Cold Mountain
- Wicked Spring
- Ride with the Devil

Any other gems worth picking up? I'm mostly looking for dramas/movies, not actual documentaries like Burn's series or things you would see on the history channel:)



ilovestrategy -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/15/2010 5:12:33 PM)

I like the ones you listed above. My fav is Glory. 



Joe D. -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/15/2010 6:34:44 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Grim.Reaper

... Any other gems worth picking up? I'm mostly looking for dramas/movies, not actual documentaries like Burn's series or things you would see on the history channel:)



Based on the book, "The Red Badge of Courage" w/Audie Murphy -- and other familiar faces -- is a timeless classic of soldiering in the Civil War, or most any war for that matter.



Joe D. -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/15/2010 6:39:14 PM)

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ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

I like the ones you listed above. My fav is Glory. 


I remember first seeing that flic on an in-flight movie while deploying for Desert Storm; I found it ironic that Wagner was a "sand fort".



Prince of Eckmühl -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/15/2010 6:53:18 PM)

Just to add to the list of possibilities:

Birth of a Nation
Cold Mountain
The Horse Soldiers (my favorite)
Gone With the Wind
The Outlaw Josey Wales




Randomizer -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/15/2010 7:04:41 PM)

Not favourites perhaps but Civil War movies for "period" perspectives might include:

Birth of a Nation; (1915) D.W. Griffith's silent feature shot when many Civil War vets were still alive and well.
Gone with the Wind; (1939) Worth sitting through even if just for the fall of Atlanta (no CGI sfx in those days) and depicting the well documented attitudes of the Southern planter class towards the North at the start of the War.

Wasn't there an appallingly bad TV mini-series back in the eighties called Ironclad or something like that about the USS Monitor-CSS Virginia fight?

Thanks for the heads up for Wicked Spring, it looks very good from the trailers.



D.Ilse -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/15/2010 8:56:01 PM)

I remember watching a film on the Hunley that was good

I still like GB and G&Gs

I have to go through my DVDs to see what else I have on the ACW.



Arsan -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/15/2010 10:34:19 PM)

Hi!

Gettysburg
The Horse Soldiers
Glory...
and to add something new, Ang Lee's "Ride with the devil", a very interesting and atypical ACW film about Missouri "guerrilla" wars between Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers.

Cheers!



Sarge -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/16/2010 3:53:27 AM)

Does Outlaw Josie Wales count.[sm=00000036.gif].............. [:D]





Greybriar -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/16/2010 4:38:38 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Grim.Reaper

American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites?


Gone with the Wind



06 Maestro -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/16/2010 5:16:28 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl

Just to add to the list of possibilities:
Gone With the Wind
The Outlaw Josey Wales


I loved both of those movies. Josey Wales is a bit out there, but its a classic. Walse is bad to the bone.



Gil R. -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/16/2010 8:51:48 AM)

"Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All."



Hertston -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/16/2010 4:16:07 PM)

Glory is definitely my favourite.



JudgeDredd -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/16/2010 4:42:45 PM)

I've got Glory recorded - I might just watch that tonight



Canoerebel -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/16/2010 5:53:18 PM)

For such a remarkably important period in American history, the Civil War has resulted in only a few decent movies and a host of bad ones (the latter include Cold Mountain and Dances with Wolves, both of which are stinking piles of hooey).  Gods and Generals is equally noxious.

Some of the better movies dealing with the Civil War or Civil War era):

Shenandoah
Gone with the Wind
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (a western that is set during the Civil War)
Gettsyburg
Glory



jackx -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/17/2010 12:41:13 AM)

There's not that many dedicated ACW war movies that I know - GB, G&G, Glory, Red Badge being the only ones that I've seen. The rest falls more into the "a story set during the ACW" category, with combat/war segments of varying quality.... much the same as the actual war movies, unfortunately.



killroyishere -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/17/2010 1:01:19 AM)

The Gettysburg film with Sheen as Lee is the best I've seen. A lot more action and less talking like the others. It's my favorite ACW film. Zulu is my 2nd favorite war film of all time. [:D]



bairdlander2 -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/17/2010 1:10:10 AM)


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ORIGINAL: killroyishere

The Gettysburg film with Sheen as Lee is the best I've seen. A lot more action and less talking like the others. It's my favorite ACW film. Zulu is my 2nd favorite war film of all time. [:D]

Zulu is not an American Civil War movie.Please stay on topic.



Obsolete -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/17/2010 1:53:19 AM)

I am so confused as to how you could like Zulu so much.  I found it almost impossible to keep my eyes open that long to actually get to any action part.

I am going to be a hypocrite here, and state Glory was probably in my top 2 favourite CW movies.  I guess the Hollywood directing seems to make it decent.  And yes, I do CRINGE at this, since I am always hating anything that has to do with Hollywood so much, but I guess as far as this film went, I liked the style.  It didn't go too overboard at least.





NefariousKoel -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/17/2010 2:10:40 AM)


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and to add something new, Ang Lee's "Ride with the devil", a very interesting and atypical ACW film about Missouri "guerrilla" wars between Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers.

Cheers!



Damn Redlegs!



JudgeDredd -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/17/2010 7:40:49 AM)

Started watching Glory last night, stopped it and deleted it. I just can't watch Ferris Bueller talk without thinking about his day off!



GoodGuy -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/17/2010 7:55:02 PM)

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ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

I just can't watch Ferris Bueller talk without thinking about his day off!


Hmm, I don't get that one... pls explain :D

There's Cold Mountain on freeTV here right now, and Glory will be on in 2 hrs. I've only seen fragments of Glory, so I can't remember the plot. Worth watching?



Randomizer -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/17/2010 8:03:58 PM)

Early in his acting career Matthew Broderick, (who played Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the Coloured regiment that is the subject of the movie Glory) also played Ferris Bueller in the teen coming of age flick Ferris Bueller's Day Off back in the late eighties.

On topic, Glory is worth seeing for anybody remotely interested in America's Civil War.



Joe D. -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/17/2010 9:28:53 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Randomizer

Early in his acting career Matthew Broderick, (who played Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the Coloured regiment that is the subject of the movie Glory) also played Ferris Bueller in the teen coming of age flick Ferris Bueller's Day Off back in the late eighties ...


Broderick often played much younger roles, but he was approximately Shaw's age when he starred in "Glory".

BTW, Broderick is believed to be a distant relative of Robert Gould Shaw (IMDb)



GoodGuy -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/17/2010 9:36:39 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Randomizer

Early in his acting career Matthew Broderick, (who played Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the Coloured regiment that is the subject of the movie Glory) also played Ferris Bueller in the teen coming of age flick Ferris Bueller's Day Off back in the late eighties.

On topic, Glory is worth seeing for anybody remotely interested in America's Civil War.


Thanks for the input Randomizer.
Ahhh that Ferris guy who "borrowed" his father's car (IIRC?)?
Dang, it used to be terrible with movie titles here, German distributors had a tendency to either pick a new title or alter the original title, so Germans often end up asking dumb questions. Well, in this case it was the name "Bueller" that confused me.



killroyishere -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/18/2010 2:58:57 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Obsolete

I am so confused as to how you could like Zulu so much.  I found it almost impossible to keep my eyes open that long to actually get to any action part.

I am going to be a hypocrite here, and state Glory was probably in my top 2 favourite CW movies.  I guess the Hollywood directing seems to make it decent.  And yes, I do CRINGE at this, since I am always hating anything that has to do with Hollywood so much, but I guess as far as this film went, I liked the style.  It didn't go too overboard at least.





Are you sure you're not thinking of Zulu Dawn? As I found that one rather boring until the last like 10 minutes, but, Zulu gets to the action pretty quickly and there's at least 30 minutes or more of pure action battle scenes.



redcoat -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/18/2010 1:10:58 PM)


My favourites would be (1) Glory, (2) Ride with the devil and (3) Gettysburg.

The Outlaw Jose Wells and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are damn good ‘Civil War’ Westerns. Favourite line in the Outlaw Josie Wales: “Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?” The Confederate cavalry in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly looked like members of ZZ Top. [:D]



Brigz -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/19/2010 2:03:01 AM)

Anybody remember a movie made in the 50's about some Confederate soldiers on an undercover mission in Vermont to blow up a Union ammo dump? A very good movie for it's time. I think the lead actor was Van Heflen.

@Judge Dread
You should sit through Glory and try to get over Matthew Broderick. It's a very good movie and the other actors give great performances. The regiments first fire fight is one of the best Civil War battle scenes I've seen.



redcoat -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/19/2010 10:51:42 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs

Anybody remember a movie made in the 50's about some Confederate soldiers on an undercover mission in Vermont to blow up a Union ammo dump? A very good movie for it's time. I think the lead actor was Van Heflen.



It was called The Raid:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047388/



JudgeDredd -> RE: American Civil War Movies - What are everybody's favorites? (2/19/2010 11:15:48 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Obsolete
I am so confused as to how you could like Zulu so much.  I found it almost impossible to keep my eyes open that long to actually get to any action part.

I find this statement the most remarkable statement I've read in a long time.

I think Killroyishere is right - you might be thinking about Zulu Dawn and whilst I agree it took a while to get to the action the film was also an awesome film



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