Disgusting display of ignorance and bigotry

Rating: 3/10 (6 December 2004)

While I'm sure that the cinematic effort shown in this film is quite worthy of praise, the result is a film that spits in the face of decency.
This piece of fiction, under the guise of telling the story of the Civil War and the birth of the KKK (or a nation), is so fundamentally flawed with a racist depiction of elected blacks during reconstruction (who, among other things, are responsible for our public education system) that I can't imagine anyone not finding it disturbing.
As a descendant of two Michiganders who were among the first troops to defend Washington in 1861 (and later died), I'm revolted.