from Warner Brothers
Directed by
Ron
Maxwell
Starring
Bruce
Boxleitner (James Longstreet)
Jeff
Daniels (Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain)
Robert
Duvall (Robert E. Lee)
C. Thomas Howell (Tom Chamberlain)
Stephen Lang (Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson)
Written by
Ron Maxwell
Rated: 
(for sustained battle sequences)
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Gods and Generals is the prequel to The Killer Angels, the novel
upon which the film Gettysburg was based. Written by Jeff Shaara
(son of Michael Shaara, author of The Killer Angels), Gods and
Generals is written and directed by Ron Maxwell. The movie was
produced by Ted Turner Pictures and filmed in and around Sharpsburg,
Maryland, the site of the Antietam Battlefield, and on actual
historic locations in Virginia and West Virginia. Many of the
actors from the movie Gettysburg have reprised their roles in
the new film. Gods and Generals is a sweeping epic charting the
early years of the Civil War and how the campaigns unfolded from
Manassas to the Battle of Fredericksburg, and explores the motivations
of the combatants and examines the lives of those who waited
at home.
Official
Site
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