The Year 1864 This disc is the one that contains the turning of the war against the South. Highlighting the major Generals both North and South. The growing struggle of Lee and Grant where they would have to out think then out fight the other to win. Grant was the failure exhibited by his years [...]
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Movie Review:PBS Civil War Part III Simply Murder 1863
March 13, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a continuation of the special of Ken Burns on the Civil War. Some of the note worthy highlights of this year in the Civil War was that it was fought in over 10,000 places. Grant had victories and then began his siege of Vicksburg where he surrounded 31,000 confederate troops and held them [...]
Movie Review: Civil War II A Bloody Affair 1862
March 6, 2010 – 1:10 am
This second disc in two parts highlights the year 1862. The introduction of the Income Tax and the Inventions for making war show casing the Gatling Gun. This year highlights the fact that the weapons have surged far ahead of military tactics. General McClellan is in charge of the Union army but is unable to [...]
Movie Review: PBS Documentary The Civil War Part 1
February 27, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a multiple part documentary movie series on the Civil War by Ken Burns. The coverage is from how the Civil War began to the end of the war. Part one is geared around what happened to get this scenario moving in such a direction and to cause so much mayhem. It begs me [...]
Movie Review: The Ox-Bow Incident
February 20, 2010 – 1:10 am
This movie is adapted from the novel of Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s by the same name. This movie is a tense drama highlighting the dangers inherent in the nature of man. The vision is that of a mob mentality that can and will replace reason. Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan portray cowboys new into town [...]
Movie Review: Conagher
February 6, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a western movie from a Louis L’Amour story by the same title. The story revolves around the lives of two people of the west. We have a recently widowed Evie Teale, played by Katherine Ross, who is sticking to the land her husband brought her to. He then road off to buy cattle [...]
Movie Review: Raiders of Old California
January 30, 2010 – 1:10 am
This Black and White Western Movie is set in 1847 California. The basis of the story is on land grants and how crooked men were able to gain control over large parcels of land and try and rule it like its own kingdom. Senor Sebastian used his land grant to initially save his life and [...]
Movie Review: Last Stand at Saber River
January 23, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a western story by Elmore Leonard ( Get Shorty, Out of Sight ) turned into a movie. The story is about a family that is reunited after the father returns from the Civil War as a changed man but inside he is still the same and the family returns to their home in [...]
Movie Review: The Shadow Riders
January 16, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a Louis L’Amour story of two brothers immediately after the Civil War. Each of the two older Traven brothers fought on opposite sides but are now heading home. The oldest one Daly played by Sam Elliot, fought for the Confederacy and was caught up in two separate events that almost took his life. [...]
Movie Review: Far and Away
January 9, 2010 – 1:10 am
I classified this movie as a western. The story began in Ireland and ended up on the rolling plains of Oklahoma. This is a love story with a truly American twist in that the lowly commoner wins the love of the gentry of the old country. Joseph Donnelly played by Tom Cruise holds his father [...]
