Andersonville (1996)

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.

Release Date : March 3, 1996

Runtime : 167m

Genre : War, Drama, TV Movie, History  

Companies : Turner Pictures (I), Turner Network Television, Gideon Productions

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : prison, war crimes, prisoner of war, prison escape, prison brawl, union soldier, confederate soldier, american civil war