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Gettysburg

Gettysburg

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 8, 1993

Runtime

4h 14m

Genres

Drama, History, War

User Score

69%

Original Title

Gettysburg

Production Companies

Esparza / Katz Productions, Turner Pictures, Mace Neufeld Productions, Robert Rehme Productions, TriStar Television

Director

Ronald F. Maxwell

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$12,700,000

Description

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.