Andersonville (1996)

Directed by

John Frankenheimer

Genre

drama fiction

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Union soldiers are captured during the Civil War and sent to a notorious Confederate prison camp. The story follows their struggle to survive brutal conditions and harsh treatment.

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What happens

Andersonville is a 1996 American television film directed by John Frankenheimer about a group of Union soldiers during the American Civil War who are captured by the Confederates and sent to an infamous Confederate prison camp. The film premiered on TNT on March 3, 1996. The film is loosely based on the diary of John Ransom, a Union soldier imprisoned there. Although certain points of the plot are fabricated, the general conditions of the camp accurately match Ransom's descriptions, particularly references to the administration of the camp by Captain Henry Wirz. His line on escaping prisoners is very similar to the book, "The Flying Dutchman (Wirz) offers to give two at a time twelve hours the start". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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