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Class of '61 is a 1993 American war drama television film produced by Steven Spielberg as a projected television series about the American Civil War. It focused on men who were classmates at West Point and separated by the war between the North and the South.
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Apr 12, 1993 · With Christien Anholt, Andre Braugher, Dan Futterman, Josh Lucas. Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot involves Lucius, a Shelby Peyton's slave, who kills a slave trader and goes on the run.
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- Action, Drama
- Gregory Hoblit
- 1993-04-12
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Class of ’61 (1993) The story of three friends, all West Pointers, torn apart by the Civil War, with two heading off to fight for the North and one for the South. There’s Shelby Peyton (Dan Futterman), who isn’t proud of slavery, but can’t take up arms against his home state of Virginia.
CAST DAN FUTTERMAN, CLIVE OWEN, JOSHUA LUCAS, SOPHIE WARD, ANDRE BRAUGHER, LAURA LINNEY. DIRECTOR GREGORY HOBLIT. SCREENWRITER JONAS MCCORD. Friend is turned against friend—and sometimes father against son—as the nation turns against itself in Class of '61, the made-for-television movie from Amblin Entertainment and MCA TV International ...
Class of '61. Divided by the Civil War, three friends (Dan Futterman, Clive Owen, Joshua Lucas) from West Point meet again at the Battle of Manassas.
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Overview. Class of '61 is a 1993 television film produced by Steven Spielberg as a projected television series about the American Civil War. The film was filmed in Charleston, South Carolina and Atlanta and was the first collaboration between Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski.