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  • Gods and Generals
  • Opened February 21, 2003 | Runtime:3 hr. 49 min.
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 12+. Read More
  • A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War and how the campaigns unfolded from Manassas I to the Battle of Fredericksburg, this prequel to the film Gettysburg explores the motivations of the combatants and examines the lives of those Read More
  • Cast: Kevin Conway, Robert Duvall, Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Mira Sorvino, Bruce Boxleitner
  • Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
  • Genres: War Epic, Historical Epic, Epic

Gods and Generals Critic Reviews

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  • 60
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    One doesn't come away from it with any sense of what the victory cost in human...

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Maxwell has populated his film with paragons rather than people. Worse, they...

  • 40
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Gods and Generals is American history transformed into a museum movie,...

  • 38
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The kind of movie beloved by people who never go to the movies, because they...

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