Andersonville
“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.
A relentlessly grim and unflinching look at the horrors of war, Andersonville plunges viewers into the depths of human suffering. It's a stark, brutal, and deeply affecting portrayal of survival against overwhelming odds.
