Release Date | 1996-03-03 |
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Runtime | 167 minutes |
Genres | War, Drama, TV Movie, History |
Stars | Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Carmen Argenziano, Frederick Coffin |
Directors | John Frankenheimer, John Frankenheimer, Gary Chang, David W. Rintels, David W. Rintels |
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.