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Videodisc release of the 1996 television mini-series.
In the madness and fury of the Civil War, a small group of Union soldiers fall into the hands of the Confederate army. Overnight, they find themselves herded aboard a prison train bound for the deepest regions of the South, to a slice of Hell carved out of the Georgia clay known as Andersonville.

Originally produced as a television mini-series in 1990.
An epic documentary bringing life to America’s most destructive – and defining – conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.

Originally produced for broadcast in 1993 and 1999 as 12 episodes of the television programs: Civil War Journal and Civil War Combat.
Utilizing rare diary entries, photographs, and modern-day re-enactments, explores every aspect of the Civil War.

Originally produced for television broadcast in 2005.
Join a team of explorers as they brave the Atlantic Ocean, on a search for the 140-year old steamship S.S. Republic, and its massive treasure of artifacts and gold and silver coins.

Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman’s absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father’s farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting characters.

Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America’s first Black regiment in the Civil War.

Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left a quiet life as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was a religious man who served in defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, Confederate leader, was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised.

Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O’Hara. The story begins on the O’Hara’s Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Originally broadcast as three television mini-series.
This saga follows two families – the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South – through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship.