Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny

Starring:James Choate, Patrick Falci
Studio: Allumination
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
This is the epic story of the Battle of Gettysburg presented by the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee and filmed at the massive 140th Gettysburg Battle Reenactment. Additional locations include the White House of the Confederacy, the Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Cashtown Inn. The dramatic story unfolds through both Union and Confederate commanders dispatches, diaries and after-battle reports. The action is nonstop with some of the biggest and most exciting Civil War battle sequences ever filmed.

Description

This is the epic story of the Battle of Gettysburg presented by the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee and filmed at the massive 140th Gettysburg Battle Reenactment. Additional locations include the White House of the Confederacy, the Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Cashtown Inn. The dramatic story unfolds through both Union and Confederate commanders dispatches, diaries and after-battle reports. The action is nonstop with some of the biggest and most exciting Civil War battle sequences ever filmed.

Customer Reviews:

Disappointed.......2007-04-15

I bought this and several other Gettysburg related books and films to help prep my son for a trip to the battlefield this spring. I did not have high expectations, as the previous reviews were so mixed. But I was still disappointed. Horrible acting and editing aside (I understood that this was filmed during the reinactment and these were not professional actors) the film was impossible to follow. The timeline and details of the battle were unclear as was the layout of the ground. The narrative was often difficult to understand and there were endless scenes of men moving across smoky fields without any explanation. Try another film if you are trying to understand more about what happened at Gettysburg.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......2006-12-22

This is positively the best Civil War Comedy ever made, sheer genius in mocking Civil War reenactors....oh....were they serious?....

Has absolutely no bearing on the Battle of Gettysburg, if you're looking for a lesson in Civil War history and tactics, look elsewhere.

Borders on the ridiculous with the terrain looking nothing like the battlefield (I did not realize that Little Round Top was actually a flat field!)

Actors who mumble unintelligible lines, wear real pork chops for sideburns, and Halloween style uniforms, this has it ALL! Sure to make the staunchest Civil War buff to focus on another chapter of American History.

Not as bad as some people say; a lot worse than what others say.......2006-09-18

This movie has many bad points and a few good points. Actualy it only has one good point: It has a lot of people. Asides from the the acting his horrible and the location which they did the big G-burg reenactment on looks nothing like Gettysburg so you can't even see the terrain like you can in the movie Gettysburg.

As I said before the acting sucks, but not as badly as some people think; there are some better actors than other like Joshua Chamberlain who doesn't say anything at least looks the part, and whoever does his voice-over is pretty good. But then there are others like the guy who plays James Longstreet, a man who in history was physicaly fit but in this version was extremely obese.
Then there are just some stupididly bad things: like the fact that the 20th Main the depict running though the woods is like 20 guys when at the reenactments they have thousands. Like the fact that they couldn't even get an actual flag pole to carry the Division flag the 20th Maine had, but a stick they must have found in the underbrush. Not to mention the fact that a regiment shouldn't even have a Division standard. One more part involving the 20th Maine is Col. Vincent - disgusting. I can't even describe it, he's standing there in the underbrush not doing anything with horribly fake sideburns and its just horribe. I'll take the "Gettysburg" Strong Vincent. There are however some mildly ok actors - the guy who plays the Irish Brigades chaplain isn't that bad.

Then there are the reenactors - never in my life have I seen such unemotional portrayal of a battle. Of course since the Gettysburg reenactment is one of the biggest reenactments it also attracts the most Farbs. I mean these guys don't even run from the enemy - when called to retreat they jog ten steps and stop to catch there breath. Half the Artillery guys have such huge bugles in there stomach that you would think they were pregnant women if they had not had beards at the time. Then there are the typical dumb farb whereing his fake uniforms with earplugs and other modern commodoties. Not to mention the women reenactors potraying mal soldiers don't even hide the fact there women.

Of course when the camera zooms out its masses of men and smoke and rather impressive to see - so if you like Reenacting videos you might like this if you jump around all its shortcomings.

Save your money.......2006-07-15

No a very good video. Poor quality. Hard to follow. Very much a cheat copy of the movie Gettysburg.

Very good for low-budget effort.......2004-12-30

we purchased this as a souvenir of our Gettysburg trip and enjoyed watching it. It was more realistic than the reenactment altho that was also educational for us. really good if you keep in mind it is not made by fancy hollywood studio with big money effects. my kids learned a lot from it which is more than I can say for the baby-food-history you get in big theater chains

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