Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 167 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
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.
- prison
- war crimes
- prisoner of war
- prison escape
- prison brawl
- union soldier
- confederate soldier
- american civil war
The bill
Jarrod Emick
Josiah Day
Frederic Forrest
Sgt. McSpadden
Ted Marcoux
Martin Blackburn
Carmen Argenziano
Hopkins
- Frederick Coffin — Collins
- Cliff DeYoung — Sgt. John Gleason
- William H. Macy — Col. Chandler
- William Sanderson — Munn
- Matt McGrath — Ethan
- Jan Tříska — Cap. Henry Wirz
- Directed
- John Frankenheimer
- Written
- David W. Rintels
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 53 ratings
- Studio
- Turner Pictures (I), Turner Network Television, Gideon Productions
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