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Summary: Unbelievable horror and truth
Review: Upon watching this film I was horrified at the conditions at which the prisoners were kept and the treatment they recieved. Upon doing a geneology study of my Fathers faimily I came upon 4 relatives that were at Andersonville. It was hard to watch the movie seeing the treatment that they recieved. I have actually visited Andersonville and it brought tears to my eyes to see all the graves that are there. This was a terrible war that at times put family members against each other.
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Summary: Exciting story of adversity.
Review: Very good. Brings to a wider audience the facts about the Confederacy mistreating prisoners.Shame there's no comparable movie about the horrible conditions in Northern prisoner camps. Ah, well. Ted Turner would never allow that. I encourage everyone to read the book "Andersonville." Much better than the movie, which tends to oversimplify.
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Summary: Exciting story of adversity.
Review: Very good. Brings to a wider audience the facts about the Confederacy mistreating prisoners. Shame there's no comparable movie about the horrible conditions in Northern prisoner camps. Ah, well. Ted Turner would never allow that. I encourage everyone to read the book "Andersonville." Much better than the movie, which tends to oversimplify.
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Summary: Andersonville - Words can't describe...
Review: We owe many thanks to those who had the heart to put this movie together and to get it right. There is nothing so harsh as reading about Andersonville. Though placing the viewer in the action and portraying the life and hostilities on television is excellent. There simply has never been a better production that captured the attrocities, horrors and nasty realities of prisoner life in the Civil War. The supply-ridden South and lack of prisoner humanity is certainly covered well through out this production. Naturally, no actor in this world can lose 100 pounds to be appear near death and sickened. I give credit to the movie for getting as close as they can to show emaciated individuals suffering day in and day out. How anyone lived or survived Andersonville is a miracle. See for yourself!
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Summary: Grim, but should be viewed for historical significance.
Review: While this is a grim, often brutal story, the history of this little known prison, and the struggles of the inmates is heroic, at the same time. Many people are completely unaware of the stories surrounding Andersonville Prison. Wirz is depicted as a "madman" by some, but it should be noted that he often had to deal with many shortages of food, medical equipment, and supplies, as the South was concentrating it's efforts elsewhere, in order to try to win the war. I viewed this story as an example of man's inhumanity to man, but also as an example of man's struggles to survive, in spite of horrific odds.
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Summary: How about showing the other side of the story?
Review: Yes, conditions at Andersoville were horrible, food in short supply, once proud uniforms now simply rags, however, the ones to blame for the conditons are the northern leadership not the cash strapped southern goverment. The blockake of Southern ports was strangling the Southern economy (and most of the ag land in the South was for cash crops NOT foodstuffs)The civilans of the South and thier armies were short of everything especially food, its not like they were withholding supplies out of malice but they barely had any for themselves. The north knew this and stopped the prisoner exhange system to further deny the South released prisoners but also to stretch Southern resources to the breaking point. Southern POW's in Northern prison camps suffered the same hardships, however, the North did not suffer from the economic shortages the South. Oh and when Sherman was running all over GErogia with no resistance why didn't he liberate Andersonville, hmmmm perhaps it was to further stretch Southern mand power and resrouces till the very end point.
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