CSA: The Confederate States of America
by Kevin Willmott
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Actor: Greg Kirsch, Molly Graham, Renee Patrick, Rupert Pate, William WillmottDirector: Kevin Willmott
Brand: Genius
Writer: Kevin Willmott
Producer: Andrew Herwitz
Producer: Benjamin Meade
Producer: Kerwin Looney
Producer: Marvin Voth
Producer: Matt Jacobson
Producer: Ollie Hall
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 79510
Studio: Ifc
Product features:
- What If The South Had Won The War? What would it be like if they won? C.S.A.: The Confederate States Of America, through the eyes of a faux documentary, takes a look at an America where the South won the Civil War. Supposedly produced by a British broadcasting company, the feature film is presented as a production being shown, controversially, for the first time on television in the States.
Movie Reviews of CSA: The Confederate States of America
Movie Review: Flawed and not the best alternate history work made, but I love it anyway.
Summary: 5 Stars
Beware of the Spoilers.
Kevin Willmott's "CSA: The Confederate States of America" is an excellent film. Whether you love the Confederacy or hate it, this film, as it says, provides a fascinating and provocative look into a very different America that might have been. It is presented as a British documentary in the alternate world the movie envisions, and it is indicated early on that censorship in the CSA came close to preventing the documentary from ever being seen. In this alternate world, history diverges from how we know it just before Gettysburg, when Judah P. Benjamin succeeds in gaining the CSA military aid from Britain and France, causing Gettysburg to be a crushing defeat for the United States. The Confederacy soon invades in return, storming Washington, DC and taking the White House. President Lincoln has fled, and the primary objective of the Confederacy is now to find and capture him. Lincoln is being smuggled across the border to Canada by another enemy of the Confederate States, Harriet Tubman, when Confederate troops hunt him down. Tubman is soon hung, and though many voices are clamoring for the execution of former President Lincoln, President Jefferson Davis decides not to do so, believing that sparing him will help to mend the rift between North and South. The CSA soon annexes the USA, and goes on to take over Central and South America, creating the tropical empire that some Confederate leaders one day hoped to create. Lincoln dies lonely and bitter, exiled to Canada, and his Emancipation Proclamation is insignificant and forgotten, much as he is, in the history books. Canada becomes a defiant holdout against Confederate expansionism, swayed against deporting fleeing slaves by a powerful speech made to Canadian Parliament by Frederick Douglass. This decision begins a long, long relationship of mutual dislike between the CSA and Canada, eventually resulting in an alternate Cold War between the two nations that continues to the present day. The Confederacy does not make any separation between church and state, and ensures its status as a Christian nation by outlawing all other religions. Jews, in a totally inadequate gesture of thanks for the service of Judah P. Benjamin, are allowed to remain on reservations.
The Great Depression is ended by a slavery-related act passed by the CS President, exporting large numbers of slaves overseas. When Adolf Hitler rises to power in Germany, the two nations become very friendly, with Confederate politicians attending Nazi rallies, and Hitler making a personal visit to the Confederate States. No official alliance is ever established, but the CSA promises it will make no move against Germany in any wars it has with its neighbors. World War II still ends with a German defeat- I consider that rather unrealistic, but not impossible, much as I see this film overall- but with much heavier Soviet losses. The Pacific, however, is far more different. The CSA preemptively assaults numerous Imperial Japanese bases and colonies on 12-7-1941, battling their way across the Pacific and ending the war through use of the atomic bomb. A black infantry unit is commissioned, and the soldiers who fight in it act as a massive slap in the face to prevailing Confederate views- that blacks are genetically inferior to whites and incapable of matching them in talent and intelligence- distinguish themselves under fire, going on the most dangerous missions their white officers can find and taking high losses in the process. The black soldiers were promised freedom if they served honorably, but this turns out to be a lie- the men are sent back to their owners in chains. The 1950's-1970's are troubled years, with slave rebellions, anti-slavery terrorist attacks, and an expansionist war in Vietnam. When John F. Kennedy is elected President, the first Northerner to obtain the Presidency since Lincoln, polls show that well under half of the CSA's populace favors slavery, the lowest figures in history. Women demand to be more than the property of men. Both emancipation for slaves and voting rights for women seem imminent, until Kennedy is assassinated. The CSA instead continues on its white supremacist track, keeping slaves and denying equal rights to women until the present date. Canada becomes the America we know in many ways, being vastly more popular worldwide and possessing the culture Confederate censorship makes impossible. Confederate culture never progresses beyond government-inspired propaganda.
I believe this scenario to be unlikely, but not impossible. The Confederacy had relatively little interest in conquering the USA, which was on the other hand obsessed with conquering its Southern neighbor. International pressure and rising numbers of slave rebellions would have likely forced the CSA to abandon slavery long before the present date. Still, given that every alteration of history, any change to any battle, law, or war can create an entirely different world, it is quite possible that this exact scenario could have occurred. I do not believe that the Confederacy's dedication to holding slaves was so extreme. However, the film is superbly made, and whether you agree with it or not, a fascinating film that I highly recommend. As a final note, I have no idea why some have called this a satire. None.
Summary of CSA: The Confederate States of America
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