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Feb 21, 2003 · "Gods and Generals" is the kind of movie beloved by people who never go to the movies, because they are primarily interested in something else--the Civil War, for example--and think historical accuracy is a virtue instead of an attribute. The film plays like a special issue of American Heritage.
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Aug 12, 2001 · A WORTHY TRIBUTE. G ods and Generals by Jeff Shaara is the “prequel” to his late father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels. Ronald Maxwell, director of the movie Gettysburg, which was based on Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels, was the prime instigator of the younger Shaara’s efforts toward his new novel.
May 28, 1996 · Gods and Generals covers the lead-up to the American Civil War, and the war itself, from 1858 to 1863. Like all the Shaara novels, it focuses on a few primary leaders, in this case, Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, and Chamberlain.
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Jun 25, 2024 · Based on Jeff Shaara's novel and the prequel to Gettysburg (1996), itself an adaptation of his father Michael's classic Killer Angels, the movie evokes an array of emotions and thoughts depending upon one's interest in the Civil War. It is exciting and boring, fulfilling and frustrating, absorbing and maddening.
Meticulous Civil War story runs a little long. Read Common Sense Media's Gods and Generals review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Jeff Daniels, Robert Duvall, Stephen Lang
- Ronald F. Maxwell
- Warner Bros.
Gods and Generals is a 2003 American epic war drama film written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. It is an adaptation of the 1996 novel of the same name by Jeffrey Shaara and prequel to Maxwell's 1993 film Gettysburg. Most of the film was personally financed by media mogul Ted Turner.
Feb 24, 2003 · Characters in the Civil War re-enactment saga Gods and Generals do not hold conversations with each other; they direct speeches at one another, in prose so florid and strenuous you expect their jawbones to snap in half due to the extreme weight of the words. The plot—or the history book lesson of names, dates and places—lacks even the most ...
