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Andersonville

Andersonville

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 3, 1996

Runtime

2h 47m

Genres

War, Drama, TV Movie, History

User Score

66%

Original Title

Andersonville

Production Companies

Turner Pictures (I), Turner Network Television, Gideon Productions

Director

John Frankenheimer

Description

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.