Gettysburg (movie)

Gettysburg was a 1993 movie that dramatized the decisive American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg. It was directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, who also wrote the screenplay, adapted very faithfully from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.

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1993 - Movie - American Civil War - Battle of Gettysburg - Ronald F. Maxwell - Pulitzer Prize - 1974 - The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara

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• Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee
• Tom Berenger as Gen. James Longstreet
• Jeff Daniels as Col. Joshua Chamberlain
• Sam Elliott as Gen. John Buford
• Stephen Lang as Gen. George Pickett
• C. Thomas Howell as Tom Chamberlain
• Kevin Conway as Sergeant "Buster" Kilrain, the only fictional character in the movie.
• Joseph Fuqua as J.E.B. Stuart

Gettysburg runs 254 minutes (4 hours, 14 minutes) on VHS and DVD. An editor's cut, with several extended or deleted scenes, was produced and sold as a part of a special VHS boxed set, which also included Mort Künstler's book of Gettysburg paintings, an original Civil War lead bullet, some stock photographs of key officers from the battle, and other items. The editor's cut has not appeared on any DVDs to date.

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VHS - DVD

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