Gettysburg: The Boys in Blue & Gray
by Robert Child
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Actor: Andy RedmondDirector: Robert Child
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 77 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS (Direct)
Movie Reviews of Gettysburg: The Boys in Blue & Gray
Movie Review: By Re-enactors, For Re-enactors
Summary: 2 Stars
I wondered through the entirety of this documentary for whom it was created:
Anyone unfamiliar with the battle will find a pathetically acted, incoherent chain of events narrated in an archaic style of english which can be understood only with difficulty.
Anyone familiar with the battle will find a painful, if brave, attempt at acting glossed-over summaries of events, with narration policed from overly-familiar footnotes found in any two or three books on the subject.
Had I seen this documentary at any other time, I would have found it enormously frustrating to watch. But by coincidence, I began reading Stephen Sears' "Gettysburg" this week -- an excellent book which, like most detailed military historical writing, presents only clouded imagery for the mind's eye beyond the arrows and rectangles drawn on the maps.
I found this film a good complementary visual supplement to that reading. Here you can traverse the ground within the landscape and within the main formations. I find no other usefulness to this documentary.
Placed into uniform upon their terrain, the re-enactors do what they do best -- To *show* what these events looked like. If the film does little more than that, it also does nothing less.
In the end, the most appreciative audience for this film will be other re-enactors.
Summary of Gettysburg: The Boys in Blue & Gray
The sweeping epic of the largest battle ever fought on American soil emerges in GETTYSBURG: THE BOYS IN BLUE & GRAY. In mid-July 1863, Union Lt. Frank A. Haskell wrote a vivid account in a letter to his brother. The compelling words of Haskell and other soldiers on both sides re-create the action. Filmed in five states and in the Gettysburg National Military Park, the film includes seven full-scale battles and a stirring original soundtrack.Documentary DVD Video
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