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Andersonville

(1996)

March 3, 1996• 2h 47m
65%
TMDB Score

Overview

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and shipped to the camp in southern Georgia. A private, Josiah Day, and his sergeant try to hold their company together in the face of squalid living conditions, inhumane punishments, and a gang of predatory fellow prisoners called the Raiders.

John Frankenheimer

Director

Top Billed Cast

JE

Jarrod Emick

Josiah Day

FF

Frederic Forrest

Sgt. McSpadden

TM

Ted Marcoux

Martin Blackburn

CA

Carmen Argenziano

Hopkins

FC

Frederick Coffin

Collins

CD

Cliff DeYoung

Sgt. John Gleason

WHM

William H. Macy

Col. Chandler

WS

William Sanderson

Munn

MM

Matt McGrath

Ethan

JT

Jan Tříska

Cap. Henry Wirz