Civil War movies and battles depicted in them...

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What Civil War movies have you seen, and what battles were depicted in them?

"Gettysburg" to start with, which of course depicts its namesake battle - but glosses over many of the sub-battles and focuses a lot of a few of them - Bufford's defense on the first day, Longstreet's advance and the defense of Little Round Top on the 2nd, and Picket's Charge on the 3rd.

Gettysburg's prequel, "God's and Generals", which showed 1st Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville - I believe the extended version on DVD / Blu Ray also showed Sharpsburg but I've never seen it.

"Cold Harbor" is more of a civil war period piece and as I recall does not actually include its namesake battle, but does contain the famous portion of the seige of Pettersburg known as the battle of the Crater.

Glory
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
Gettysburg
Gods And Generals

That's all I can think of at the moment.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

A few of them have already been mentioned but I'll relist them.

Glory
Gettysburg
Cold Mountain

Gettysburg of course shows the battle of Gettysburg and Cold Mountain shows the Battle of the Crater that ScrewyWabbit mentioned.. I don't recall exactly what the battle was in glory but I know it took place in.. South Carolina I believe? Fort Wagner perhaps.

Oops yes I meant Cold Mountain, not Cold Harbor (which was the name of another famous battle, but not the movie).