Andersonville (1996)

6.5/10 • 167 min • War Drama TV Movie History

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

Frederic Forrest

Sgt. McSpadden

Ted Marcoux

Martin Blackburn

Carmen Argenziano

Hopkins

Frederick Coffin

Collins

Cliff DeYoung

Sgt. John Gleason

William H. Macy

Col. Chandler

William Sanderson

Munn

Matt McGrath

Ethan

Jan Tříska

Cap. Henry Wirz

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