1996
6.6 (47 votes)
2h 47m
Genres
War
Drama
TV Movie
History
Production Companies
Turner Pictures (I)
Turner Network Television
Gideon Productions
Turner Network Television
Gideon Productions
Andersonville
The great untold story of the American Civil War.
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.
Key Crew
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: David W. Rintels
Producer: David W. Rintels, Lansing L. Smith
Director of Photography: Ric Waite
