Andersonville (1996)
March 3, 1996
War, Drama, TV Movie, History
2h 47m


The great untold story of the American Civil War.
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- John Frankenheimer
- Sgt. McSpadden Frederic Forrest
- Martin Blackburn Ted Marcoux
- Hopkins Carmen Argenziano
- Collins Frederick Coffin
- Sgt. John Gleason Cliff DeYoung
- Col. Chandler William H. Macy
- Munn William Sanderson
- Ethan Matt McGrath
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Keywords
- prison
- war crimes
- prisoner of war
- prison escape
- prison brawl
- union soldier
- confederate soldier
- american civil war