Very good yet very long.

Rating: 10/10 (12 July 2018)

With almost an hour left I am writing this review. I heard of this movie from my 12th grade History teacher.
She taught an elective on just the Civil War and showed us a clip of this movie-also frequently referencing the sequel-Gods and Generals- which is also a good movie.
This is very long-clocking in at 4 hours and 14 minutes long. This is the longest American movie ever made, even 25 years later.
This length makes the movie overstay its welcome and distracts the ADHD viewer(hence why I am watching the movie as I write this review), however it is very well made and should be seen by those into history.
Jeff Daniels as Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is probably the best performance.
Oh, and another fact about my teacher-she begged her mom to take her, and so she dropped her off at the theater and said she would pick her up in another 4.5 hours. I told her if I were born then I would have watched it with her!
She also, believe it or not, had a cameo in the aforementioned Gods and Generals(in the 9 hour extended cut). Now, back to Gettysburg, I watched Part 1 last night, which is what you may have to do. A little background on the battle may help too.
All things said and done, as much as it drags it is very much worth your time as a time capsule to the middle of The Civil War and despite it's length should be seen.
Besides, the battle took 3 days to fight. What's 4.5 hours of 1 or 2 days to you?