Civil War Historian Rates 9 American Civil War Battles In Movies, Insider, How Real Is It
Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the Civil Warera artillery and rifles on display in Free State of Jones (2016), starring Matthew McConaughey; and Emancipation (2022), starring Will Smith. He explains the use of dynamite and other explosives seen in Cold Mountain (2003), starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger; Sahara (2005), starring Matthew McConaughey; and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967), starring Clint Eastwood. He breaks down the military strategy seen in the battle scenes in Glory (1989), starring Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, and Denzel Washington; Gettysburg (1993), starring Jeff Daniels; and Steven Spielbergs Lincoln (2012), starring Daniel DayLewis, Sally Field, and Tommy Lee Jones. And finally, he separates fact from fiction regarding Civil Warera surgeries as seen in Dances with Wolves (1990), starring Kevin Costner. Adelman is the chief historian at the American Battlefield
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