Andersonville
MovieTitle | Andersonville |
User score | 6.6 |
Release date | Mar 3, 1996 |
Genre | War, Drama, TV Movie, History |
Director | John Frankenheimer |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Turner Pictures (I), Turner Network Television, Gideon Productions |
Run time | 167 min. |
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.