Andersonville (1996)
War · Drama · TV Movie · History
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.
Cast
- Jarrod Emick as Josiah Day
- Frederic Forrest as Sgt. McSpadden
- Ted Marcoux as Martin Blackburn
- Carmen Argenziano as Hopkins
- Frederick Coffin as Collins
- Cliff DeYoung as Sgt. John Gleason
- William H. Macy as Col. Chandler
- William Sanderson as Munn
- Matt McGrath as Ethan
- Jan Tříska as Cap. Henry Wirz