poster

1996

NR (03/03/1996) (US)

War, Drama, TV Movie

2h 47m

64

User Score

The great untold story of the American Civil War.

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.

1996

64

User Score

NR (03/03/1996) (US)

War, Drama, TV Movie

2h 47m

The great untold story of the American Civil War.

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.

Cast

Jarrod Emick

Jarrod Emick

Josiah Day

Frederic Forrest

Frederic Forrest

Sgt. McSpadden

Ted Marcoux

Ted Marcoux

Martin Blackburn

Cliff DeYoung

Cliff DeYoung

Sgt. John Gleason

William H. Macy

William H. Macy

Col. Chandler

Jan Tříska

Jan Tříska

Cap. Henry Wirz