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Sherman's March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love In the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation is a 1986 cinéma vérité documentary film written and directed by Ross McElwee. [2]
May 6, 1986 · Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.
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- Documentary, Biography, Comedy
- Ross McElwee
- 1986-05-06
Sep 5, 1986 · In the course of Mr. McElwee's own march to the South from Boston, where he was then living, something devastating happened. On a stopover in New York, his girlfriend left him. It was a traumatic...
- Ross Mcelwee
Aug 30, 2007 · Sherman's March (1986), a documentary film by Ross McElwee, chronicles the filmmaker's search for love in the modern South while loosely retracing Sherman's 1864 march to the sea. Portions of the film take place on Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, and on the Georgia coast, near Savannah.
Sherman's March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love In the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation is a 1986 documentary film written and directed by Ross McElwee.
- Ross Mcelwee
Sherman's March. Available on Prime Video. After his girlfriend leaves him, Ross McElwee takes a voyage along the original route taken by General William Sherman - but rather than cutting a swath of destruction designed for force the Confederate South into submission, as Sherman did, McElwee searches for love, camera in hand, "training his lens ...
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A documentarian's attempts to study the effects of General Sherman's march through the South keep getting sidelined.