The nation's heart was touched by...
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point.
- 6.3
- 2003
- Released
- 3h 39m
Stephen Lang
Lt. Gen. Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Jeff Daniels
Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Robert Duvall
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Kevin Conway
Sgt. Buster Kilrain
C. Thomas Howell
Sgt. Thomas Chamberlain
Jeremy London
Capt. Alexander 'Sandie' Pendleton
Matt Letscher
Col. Adelbert Ames
Brian Mallon
Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott HancockBo Brinkman
Maj. Walter Taylor
Bruce Boxleitner
Lt. Gen. James Longstreet
William Sanderson
Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill
Billy Campbell
Maj. Gen. George Pickett
Ryan Cutrona
Brig. Gen. Marsena Patrick
Mia Dillon
Jane Beale
Justin Dray
George Jenkins
Robert Easton
John Janney
Frankie Faison
Jim Lewis
Miles Fisher
John Beale
John Castle
Old PennConn Horgan
Pvt. Dooley
Barry McEvoy
Marion Sibert
Robert Byrd
Confederate General
Karen Goberman
Lucy BealeJoseph Fuqua
Col. J. E. B. Stuart
Patrick Gorman
Gen. John Bell Hood
Lydia Jordan
Jane Corbin
Ed Markey
Irish Brigade OfficerThomas B. Mason
Old Man in Fredericksburg (as Tom Boyd Mason)Gary Gustin
Confederate Soldier
William Morgan Sheppard
Gen. Isaac Trimble
Buck Taylor
Gen. Maxcy Gregg
Herb Mitchell
Union Officer (uncredited)
Andrew Prine
Brig. Gen. Richard B. Garnett (uncredited)
Michael Sorvino
Federal Soldier
Mira Sorvino
Fanny Chamberlain
Released
en
$56,000,000.00
$12,900,000.00
- #general
- #based on true story
- #rise and fall
- #battle
- #death
- #union soldier
- #confederate soldier
- #american civil war
- #secession
- #19th century
- #violence
- #based on real person
Reviews
***Way better than "Gettysburg"*** Even though I love the Civil War I waited a full six and a half years before catching the prequel "Gods and Generals" (2003). Why? Because 1993's "Gettysburg" was so unimpressive. While "Gettysburg" has some worthwhile scenes it was merely okay on a whole, and sometimes downright tedious. How the filmmakers made the Civil War's biggest battle boring (generally
It is too afraid of reality to depict truths. Rather it hides behind a facade of being artistically 'old filmy' in styling; as too paint the whole in the romanticised vision (whitewash) held by those that love the idea of the Civil War. It was rather unbearable to say the least.