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| Andersonville | 
 enlarge | Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Carmen Argenziano, Jayce Bartok
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 11493
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 167
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDT6364D
ISBN: 0780639863
UPC: 053939636420
EAN: 9780780639867
ASIN: B00009AV9W
Theatrical Release Date: March 3, 1996
Release Date: June 1, 2004
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Product Description
The civil war explodes: air thick with musket fire soil drenched with blood of kinsmen bodies piling up like cords of wood. In the madness union soldiers are about to discover the meaning of the horrors of war. Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: 03/29/2005 Run time: 168 minutes Rating: Nr
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 Excellent!!!!!!!!!! December 22, 2008
This is an excellent movie and depiction of the conditions at Andersonville prison. The acting is very good as well. I highly recommend it for anyone that enjoys American civil war history.
 Andersonville September 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
My husband had seen this movie when he was young and had talked so much about it that I went to Amazon (where you can find anything you want) and ordered it for his birthday. He was so excited that I had found it but was disappointed that it was not the orginal movie. He said it was good, full of history "the real story" of that period but did drag a little. All in all, I think he was pleased that I had even found the movie to share with his friends.
GREAT EPIC\A LITTLE PIECE OF HELL July 15, 2008
THIS WAS A GREAT LITTLE GEM OF A MOVIE,BUT I DOUBT ONCE YOU SEE IT YOU WOULD WANT A SECOND LOOK.THIS MOVIE IS BRUTAL.THE LAST TIME I WATCHED SOMETHING SO NASTY WAS{THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST}.BELIEVE ME ANDERSONVILLE SHOWS YOU NO PASSION OR COMPASSION FOR THAT MATTER.THE PRISON CAMP WOULD MAKE YOU WISH YOU WAS DEAD OR FOUGHT TO THE DEATH & NEVER BEEN CAPTURED IN THE FIRST PLACE.ANDERSONVILLE A.K.A. HELL
Another name for Hell November 13, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In the wake of the critical and commercial success of A Man For All Seasons, Fred Zinnemann unsuccessfully attempted to use his post-Oscar clout to make a film about the atrocities at the infamous Confederate Civil War prison camp where 12,912 Union prisoners of war died of starvation and disease, but as many others had found out before him, studio chiefs didn't think it was the sort of thing to reverse declining cinema attendance and pulled the plug before a frame was shot. There had been a small-scale early TV play about the post-war trial of the officer in charge but it wasn't until Ted Turner's success with Gettysburg that a full-scale dramatization of life inside the stockade made it to the screen, and then only on the small one. The biggest name on the credits of Andersonville is director John Frankenheimer, then going through something of a critical comeback returning to the medium that first brought him to prominence: the cast is good, but it's more a case of a few familiar faces rather than big stars - Frederic Forrest, Cliff de Young, William Sanderson, William H. Macey - among a cast largely made up of little-known actors. Yet it's very clear that a lot of money has been spent, and that it's been made on a truly epic scale. Rarely has the old copywriters' pitch `a cast of thousands' seemed more appropriate as almost every scene boasts swathes of re-enactors to fill out the overcrowded prison.
Despite being made for television it never looks threadbare and it never feels like its playing down the ugliness of the situation in the name of taste or network censorship even if it doesn't dwell on the details as much as it could. Built for 8000 but ending up housing 45,000, Andersonville itself was little more than a cattle pen: no barracks, a fetid stream, a lot of mud and far too many inmates surrounded by a wall and watchtowers, it didn't take much to turn it into a festering hellhole, with rations often withheld by the commander, water so rancid that inmates had to wring rainwater from their clothes to avoid fever, child guards daring prisoners to cross the `dead line' so they could kill them for a bounty and prisoners forming gangs to prey on and often kill each other. Even Confederate officials regarded it as `a disgrace to civilization.' In a war as ugly as the one between the States, it's some measure of how bad things were that the only man convicted and executed for war crimes in the entire Civil War was the commander of Andersonville.
As drama it's fairly straightforward, following a group of new arrivals through their first days in the camp to the time those few who survive leave, taking in many of the expected conventions of the prison movie en route - escape attempts, futile deaths, dashed hopes and a near-riot. At times it does threaten to turn into a Civil War version of a WW2 P.O.W. movie, but it's held back from the pitfalls of great escapism by the fact that where many of those films often naively showed German prison camps as virtual holiday camps where the inmates tried to escape almost as a game, Andersonville makes it clear that here attempting to escape is seen as the only alternative to dying in squalor and pain. While there are few surprises, it's executed with real conviction, Frankenheimer's superb direction complemented by excellent photography from Ric Waite and production design by Michael Z. Hanan. That said, it is annoying that Warners' DVD has been needlessly cropped from fullframe into 1.85:1 widescreen, a reverse cropping that is just as bad as panning-and-scanning widescreen films into fullframe. While most of the 167 minutes it's not too damaging, there are some close-ups that become way too tight at times, although it's generally only a momentary distraction.
Good and bad in every group. July 23, 2007
Andersonville was a film made about 30-40 years too late. These days, with the internet and cable TV, we need far less reminding of how cruel we can be. It is a good film.
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