Long shadows

Duration: 89

Year Published: 1987

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: This documentary explores the legacy of the Civil War and its echoes in American society from politics to economics, civil rights, collective and regional memory. Robert Penn Warren, Studs Terkel, Jimmy Carter, Robert Coles, Tom Wicker, Albert Murray, John Hope Franklin, James Reston, Jr. and C. Vann Woodward comment on the continuing significance of that conflict, as do weekend soldiers, blues singers, battlefield guides, relic collectors, West Pointers, Vietnam veterans, old movie stars and civil rights activists.

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