Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.6 / 5.0

An excellent effort, nearly great.:

The movie "Gettysburg", at over 4 hours in length, is one hell of a long movie, but definitely worth it! If you like American history, and especially American Civil War history, you should love this movie!

This movie quite correctly chronicles in a dramatic way, the Battle of Gettysburg. All in all, it covers the major events of the battle, but certainly does not cover everything, but that's ok. It is simply the best movie/docudrama ever made about the Battle of Gettysburg that has hit the big screen. I... more info

"Gettysburg" holds true to Shaara's book:

"Gettysburg" is perhaps the best attempt by any film to capture a single battle from beginning to end. It is not a movie for everyone since there is no artificially-embedded love story (as in. "Pearl Harbor"), and in fact, there are no women in this movie at all. It sets out to depict the largest battle ever fought on the American continent. Its success is the product of the deliberate choice of the director to respect the source material, namely one of the finest historical war novels ever written, "The... more info

Gettysburg-an exciting and dramatic review of the final days:

I absolutely LOVE this movie. Based on the bestselling novel 'The Killer Angels' by Michael Shaara, Gettysburg is an engaging and [MOSTLY accurate] retelling of the events surrounding what was probably the most major battle of the War of Northern Agression (no offense to anyone, I AM a southerner, but I harbor no serious prejudices toward anyone). Some minor details, such as Chamberlain's position during the battle are slightly off, but most of the historical action is dead on. Martin Sheen delivers an... more info

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