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Title: This film puts us close to the heart of CW battle action.
Review: When I first saw R. Maxwell's GETTYSBURG, it was first run, and the theatre was full to capacity. Most in attendance were re-enactors or historians like myself. Although the film propagandizes to a degree, GETTYSBURG explores the energies that drove both sides during the three-day ordeal in and near Gettysburg, PA, in July, 1863. The Civil War was fought heart to heart as well as hand to hand, and this film's strength-- like M. Shaara's novel, THE KILLER ANGELS, on which it is based-- is its heart. GETTYSBURG might have its greatest fans among history buffs, but it remains an American story worth seeing and seeing again. Show this film to your children. Unless we understand the terror that war is, we will be forever bound to re-engage.
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