Andersonville (1996)

Andersonville is a 1996 American television film directed by John Frankenheimer about a group of Union soldiers during the American Civil War who are captured by the Confederates and sent to an infamous Confederate prison camp.

The film is loosely based on the diary of John Ransom, a Union soldier imprisoned there. Although certain points of the plot are fabricated, the general conditions of the camp accurately match Ransom's descriptions, particularly references to the administration of the camp by Captain Henry Wirz. His line on escaping prisoners is very similar to the book, "The Flying Dutchman [Wirz] offers to give two at a time twelve hours the start".

Synopsis

Ce long documentaire documentaire relate les conditions épouvantables du camp de prisonniers de guerre le plus connu de la Confédération. Le drame se déroule à travers les yeux d'une compagnie de soldats de l'Union capturés lors de la bataille de Cold Harbor, en Virginie, en juin 1864, et expédiés au camp du sud de la Géorgie. Un soldat, Josiah Day, et son sergent tentent de maintenir leur compagnie face aux conditions de vie sordides, aux punitions inhumaines et à une bande de compagnons de prison prédateurs appelés les Raiders.

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