Released
Andersonville
March 3 1996 (almost 29 years ago)Rating
66
Based on
45 reviews
The great untold story of the American Civil War.
- Director: John Frankenheimer
- Genres: War, Drama, TV Movie, History
- Runtime: 2 h 47 m
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: Turner Pictures (I), Turner Network Television, Gideon Productions
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.
