Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War.(Video recording review)

Video Business, September, 2006 by Hulse, Ed

By Ed Hulse

Mastervision, B&W and color, three discs, NR, 540 min., fullscreen, mono, Street: Sept. 19, $69.95; First Run: TLC, Jan. 1995

Produced in the early '80s under the auspices of the National Museum of American History, this superb three-part documentary is nearly as epic as the historic conflict it so masterfully covers. Great Battles benefits from the input of numerous military historians and scholars, including the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Civil War. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, this exhaustively researched documentary includes along with the factual material, readings from letters and documents penned by prominent figures from that dark phase of American history. These writings are read by such well-known...

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