The American Civil War has been the subject of many great movies, from Gettysburg to The Outlaw Josey Wales, often depicting the brutality of the conflict through heroic figures. While some of these ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...

One of the main things war movies try to show is a real-life battle or siege to spruce things up a bit and keep audiences invested in them. It's a common tactic amongst both good and bad films, as ...

During 1862 Confederate cavalry commander, John Hunt Morgan, launched his first raid into Kentucky. According to Lowell H. Harrison’s The Civil War in Kentucky (1975) his column rode west from ...