Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Great battles of the Civil War / Madacy Entertainment presents an Athenaeum production.

Publisher, Date:

St. Laurent, Quebec : Madacy Entertainment Group, 2002.

Description:

2 videodiscs (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video

Summary:

Feature: The American Civil War is one of the most studied military conflicts the world over. Through personal letters, official reports and diaries, viewers will come to understand not only the battle but also the political and personal resasons why our nation took up arms.

Making of Gods and Generals: Take a peek behind the scenes of the much anticipated production of Gods and Generals, the prequel to The Killer Angels-- the novel upon which the film Gettysburg was based. Includes interviews with author Jeff Shaara, director Ron Maxwell, and actors Robert Duvall, Stephen Lang, and Bruce Boxleitner.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Other Author:

Bearss, Edwin C.

Brown, Allen.

Shaara, Jeff, 1952-

Madacy Entertainment Group.

Other Title:

Title on container: 1861-1865, Great battles of the Civil War

Making of gods and generals.

Notes:

DVD bonus material: biography of the Civil War Generals; historical Civil War photo gallery; Civil War screensaver (PC compatible); direct access to 21 Civil War era songs and their historical background; special behind the scenes look at the making of the film "Gods and Generals."

Edward F. Feuerherd, executive producer ; Lisa Neil, producer ; Edwin Bearss, Jeff Shaara, Dan Toomey, historians.

Edwin Bearss, Allen Brown, Brian Bush, Jeff Shaara, narration and historical commentary.

DVD.

Contents:

Disc one: Feature. (170 min.) Disc two: Bonus Material.

ISBN:

077861574X

9780778615743

Publisher Number:

DVD9 9344

Other Number:

51785185