1996·2h 47m·War·Drama·TV Movie

Andersonville

6.5/ 10 · 53 votes

The great untold story of the American Civil War.

Directed by John Frankenheimer

Rating

6.5

53 votes

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.