Gods and Generals- To the Stone Wall

[shiptech2k9]

No dislikes Awesome!!! Just love this!

[joey513ja]

I usually listen to this when i do my running...good song for it truthfully

[joey513ja]

this has to be one of my top favorites on this cd

[SixFootBabyStudios]

I liked the movie and can't wait for the extended version coming out in May, and I know that this is technically historical fiction but probably one of my biggest problems with the movie is all the signals using swords given by officers. That's a reenactor thing, in the Civil War, the swords were purely decorative

[SesameCake]

@SixFootBabyStudios Me too, truly an underrated movie.

[joepotato42]

@SixFootBabyStudios Its not a reenactor thing it was a way to keep the ranks together

[TheHistoryGuy1993]

@SixFootBabyStudios I would not say its entirely historical fiction. The movie is based off a book that even though I have not read, is apparently well immersed in the legitimate civil war facts and details. The movie portrays the major parts of the war and I will say the book well, because it was criticized on the inaccuracy of characters not battle sequences or events in camp life. But yes there are some things that I noticed as well.

[SixFootBabyStudios]

I liked the movie and can't wait for the extended version coming out in May, but probably one of my worst problems with the move is all the signals using swords given by officers. That's a reenactor thing, in the Civil War, the swords were purely decorational

[tmcdewolf]

1:44 ,,At the double-quick, men!''

[jrs689]

20th Maine.....! Forward.....! March!

[Alexandros1294]

@MunchieToons It dragged on for way to long, that was my only problem with it.

[joey513ja]

@MunchieToons When i got this movie i was 15 and i just wanted to see WAR but after loving history completely for 2 more years after that i loved every part of the movie. If you love the Civil War, you would definetly appreciate this movie.

[demeandr121]

Best song in the soundtrack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[rockdaredovi8]

@demeandr121 agreed

[demeandr121]

For the whole song u just get shivers thinking about all thos brav souls who died.

[seth22654]

Another mistake I noticed is the Union American flags have 50 stars on them.

[demeandr121]

From 1:10- 1:31 I just get a feeling of sadness.

[Lancastrian83]

During the film Chamberlain is told to take care of the right wing of the 20th Maine. But is then seen standing to the left of the colours. Is that a film mistae or would that have been correct? Perhaps it was so he would be filmed in front of the colours so as to make a better shot.

[joey513ja]

@Lancastrian83 commanders sometimes shift along the line to make sure the whole regiment is functioning well. not a mistake, but good observation.

[ObaNarayanShivaji999]

Thanks again, sir.

[chopperpilot5]

nicley said. i dont understand how people say this movie sucks because it's a perfect definition of a modern day epic movie.

[Faxe90Swe]

That might be an slight overstatement, but no question about it, this movie is wonderful - I would go as far as to say that this is the best movie about the Civil War, even better than Gettysburg.

[BB2433]

@chopperpilot5. This movie is based on actual events that occurred during the American Civil War before Gettysburg. People that dont like this movie are people who dont understand history or dont like it. I give this 5/5 stars

[BryantFinlay]

@BB2433 I could not agree more. Robert Duvall was great as Lee.

[AsHleYiSaBlOnDe19]

The only people who can judge this war if it was sad or a worthy cause were those who lived it or lived through it and saw for themselves the terrible slaughter it really was.

[filmfan09]

Very, very well spoken.

[civwarbuff]

@AsHleYiSaBlOnDe19

but you just did judge it by calling it a terrible slaughter, just kidding, i wouldnt disagree

[sgtSoupy]

I love that movie too

[omltherunner]

Are you kidding???? This wasn't the saddest part of the war. The saddest part of the war was the war itself, the fact that it was Americans killing Americans.

[georgejanzen]

It's the way the people think now. The Southerners saw the thing completely differently: They were sad about Northerners tyrannizing their fatherland. For them it was a holy war for freedom. A second war of independance.

[SixFootBabyStudios]

It was actually the third war of independence, but everyone always leaves out 1812

[TaiidanSoldier]

Well the American involvement in the War of 1812 was self-invoked. We invaded Canada first so it wasn't really a war for our independence or, at least, didn't start out as one (though it never really came close to us losing our independence really).

[Faxe90Swe]

Have i missed something? Was´nt the war of 1812 a strictly territorial war, all they fought for was land? It was, after all, the Americans that started the war. (And illlegal capturing of American merchant vessels, done by the British prior to the war, can hardly count as a threat to American independence)

[BB2433]

@Faxe90Swe. yeah but they were taking American sailors and pressing them into service on British ships. That was not right so we had to go to war

[Faxe90Swe]

Yeah, you have a point there.

[Alexandros1294]

Yeah I love how my textbooks here make the British look like the bad guys in the War of 1812. It was very territorial.

[emily6895]

@Faxe90Swe your wrong it does have something against independance by taking the liberty from the soldiers that the british took and presganged in their military

[Faxe90Swe]

@emily6895

Yes, the independence of individuals, but not of the entire nation.

[emily6895]

@Faxe90Swe true but people make a nation and there for we feel threatend... all men were created equal under god is our saying, so even if you take or kill even 1 american citizen it would be no different then capturing the president

[Faxe90Swe]

@emily6895

I truly admire and respect that spirit, but if we reason like that, then the present conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan would count as a threat to your independence - and that is hardly the case.

[emily6895]

@emily6895 yes your right but you must remember the war in Iraq an Afghanistan was originally just against Sadam because he said he bombed us and we just didnt take it im glad that our allies from the u.k australia and canada bled alongside americans they are all heros in my books

[Faxe90Swe]

@emily6895

Did Sadam really say he bombed you? Never heard of that before.

[emily6895]

@Faxe90Swe yes he did

[Faxe90Swe]

@emily6895

Yet the Founding Fathers felt very uncomfortable when the commoners began demanding to be called "Mr"/"Mrs". But I guess it is what the modern Americans think today that matters.

[emily6895]

@Faxe90S your very right

[Crazyman1212]

@omltherunner old rich men sending young poor men into battle, thats war.

[parfitt21]

i love this song!