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Class of '61 (1993)

Class of '61 poster
Directed by
Gregory Hoblit
Genre
drama film, war film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
4.4 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of West Point classmates are split by the American Civil War. Some fight for the Union while others join the Confederacy.

melancholictensebittersweetvisually lushslow-burnsombergrittyintrospective

What happens

Class of '61 is a 1993 American war drama television film produced by Steven Spielberg as a projected television series about the American Civil War. It focused on men who were classmates at West Point and separated by the war between the North and the South. Filmed in Charleston, South Carolina and Atlanta, this work was the first collaboration between Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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