AP US History Movie Review

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2015)

After doing some research on this movie, I found that it was a decently accurate movie, but there were times when what was shown wasn't what actually happened. The first scene is the battle at Petersburg, which was very accurate, except that when it actually happened, there were both African-American troops and white troops, since they were separate at the time, and in the movie there were only white troops present. The details in the scene were very accurate, though, like that the place the Confederates were was blown up and because of how it was done, many were trapped, and then the Union army was able to move in and attack those that were still there. On the accuracy of how the women are shown, I have found that overall it was very accurate to the time. Often, people believe that everyone who lived in the South during the Civil War was a supporter of the war, but women usually weren't, just as they weren't in the movie. Also, since the characters lived in a rural town, the women weren't always supervised like they would have been in a place that was more populated. In the film, the two main characters that were women were often together, but not usually with anyone else. I personally thought the movie was okay. I didn't think that it would be as violent as it was, but it wasn't too bad. I enjoyed the love story part of it, too.