Andersonville

Name: Andersonville
Director: John Frankenheimer
Genre: War, Drama, TV Movie, History
Released: 1996-03-03
Duration: 2 h 47 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Carmen Argenziano, Frederick Coffin

Directed by John Frankenheimer

War

Drama TV Movie

History

19962h 47m6.5

Overview

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.