The Five Best Civil War Films to Watch, and Three to Skip
With the sesquis…sequic….the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, as well as the Fourth of July weekend coming up, it’s a good time to beat the heat and see some history. Here are the five best Civil War films to see, and three you might want to take a pass on.
THE TRENCHES. It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives vaaliantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who