Available films, documentary & reenactment videos, magazines & music
Films:
Birth of a Nation 1915 ? Classic B & W film
Gone with the Wind 1939 ? Classic love story, with the Civil war as a back drop.
Red Badge of Courage 1951 65 mins. Audie Murphy. Excellent old B&W movie.
The Raid 1956 95 mins. Van Heflin. True story of a raid from Canada by CSA troops.
The Great Locomotive Chase 1956 ? True story of a raid into the Confederacy. And escape by train.
The Horse Soldier 1959 115 mins. John Wayne. Giersons? raid. Typical Hollywood use of facts.
Gettysburg 1993 243 mins. Story of the battle and the 20th Maine, using Re-enactor.
The Hunley 1999 91 mins. Story of the first successful submarine to sink a warship.
Ironclads ? 91 mins. The fight between CSS Virginia and USS Monitor.
Andersonville: the Movie ? 160 mins. Alright if you like the goodies & the baddies.
Blue & Grey ? ? TV film.
There are numerous films on guerilla warfare i.e. 'Quantrill's Raiders', and the most recent 'Ride with the Devil'. These I am not bothering to list.
Documentaries:
The Divided Union 1988 174 mins. For Readers Digest from Channel 4 Production. 3 cassettes.
Brandy Station (Road to Gettysburg) 1993 53 mins. Made using SOSKAN re-enactors. Pub by Cromwell Pubs
Great Commanders: Grant 1993 40 mins. Series for British TV.
American Civil War: Bath 1996 41 mins. Video about SOSKAN. Pub by L & H.
Video.Decisive Weapons: The Springfield 1997 30 mins. Series for British TV.
The Ironclads 1997 57 mins Great Ship Series. A & E TV for History Channel.
Walden on Hero's: Abe Lincoln 1998? 30 mins. Series for British TV.
The Original Terminator 1999 57 mins. Attempts to raise the Monitor.
Robert E. Lee & the Army of Northern Virginia ? 55 mins. Made using SOSKAN re-enactors.
School of the Soldier ? 120 mins. Hardy & Casey's Drill manual. 2 cassettes. Pub by: Media Magic.
The American Civil War ? 640 mins Classis Ken Burns classic series. 5 cassettes.
The Civil War ? 90 mins. Using early films, & original photos. Pub by Scimitar Pubs.
Tales of the Gun: Machine Gun (Gatling) ? 18 mins. Part of a programe.
Yankee Thunder, Rebel Lightning ? 120 mins.
Antietam ? ? Narrated by James Earl Johns. Pub by Media Magic.
Chamberlain at Petersburg ? ? Pub by Media Magic.
Echo's of Blue & Grey ? ? 3 volumes.
Echo's of Blue & Grey ? ? 50th & 75th Gettysburg Reunions.
Gettysburg 1938 Last Reunion ? ?
The Assualt on Fort Stedman ? ? Pub by Media Magic.
The Battle of the Wilderness ? ? Pub by Media Magic.
The remaining documentaries are from the series 'Civil War Journal'.
There are 26 episodes which total 1,300 minutes. These are available as two
sets.
54th Massachusetts 1993 46 mins.
John Brown's War 1993 55 mins.
Stonewall Jackson 1993 56 mins.
The Boy Generals 1995 56 mins.
Bloodiest Day: Antietam ? 52 mins.
Divided Houses: Families Split by War ? 42 mins.
Pickets Charge ? 46 mins.
Sherman's March to the Sea ? 55 mins.
Re-enactments:
There are many avaliable videos on recreations of many battles.
125th re-enactments of: Ist Manassas, Shiloh, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Spotsylvania, Atlanta, Franklin, Appomattox.
135th re-enactment of Gettysburg.
2000 Chancellorville, Gettysburg, Grand Review.
Magazines:
America's Civil War All ACW
American Civil War Journal All ACW
American History Some ACW
Blue & Grey All ACW
Columbiad All ACW
Civil War All ACW
Civil War Times Illustrated All ACW
Military History Some ACW
Military History Quarterly Some ACW
North & South All ACW
Recently Available ACW Music CD &/or Cassette.
Every effort is made to insure the following information is correct, responsibility cannot be taken for any mistakes.
All are available at the moment from such online sites as: Amazon; Civil War Music Store; or their own
site.
2nd South Carolina String Band
We’re Tenting Tonight
We are a Band of Brothers
Southern Soldier
5th Michigan Regiment Band
Favorites of the 5th Michigan Regiment Band Vol 1 to 5
Sounds of the Civil War
Echoes of the Civil War
8th Regimental Band, Georgia Volunteer Infantry
When This Cruel War is Over Vol II
Tenting Tonight
Echoes of Shiloh Vol I
Civil War Favourites
11th North Carolina Regimental Band
Vol I to V
12th Louisiana String Band & Benevolent Society
Southern Songs of Love and War
Voices of Shiloh
Songs of the Southern Highlands
Songs of the Celtic South
37th Georgia Volunteer Infantry
Memories of Home, Camp, and Field
Serenade in Blue
Rebel Rousers and Concert Classica
The Bandmasters Favorites
God Save the South
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
New York Regimental Balladeers
Irish Music of the Civil War
97th Regimental String Band
Battles and Campfires
Dixie and other Love Songs
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
Raise a Ruckus
Songs of the Civil War
Americus Brass Band
Music of the Civil War
Bales Richard
The Confederacy
The Union
Charleston Symphony Orchestra
Portraits in Blue and Gray
Cheaton Daniel S.
Campfire Companion
Civil War The
TV Documentary soundtrack
Coleman William & Carla
Tunes of Glory (some poetry)
Chantilly Rememberance (some poetry)
The Last Roses (some poetry)
Cumberland Three The
Songs of the Civil War
Earth Rise
Singing the Blues and the Greys
Erbsen Wayne
Ballads and Songs of the Civil War
Southern Soldier Boy
The Home Front
Front Porch Favorites (inc songs of the times)
Fields Cindy
How Firm a Foundation
Flesher Bob
Dr Horsehair Old Time Minstrels (period songs
The Civil War Banjo
The Minstrel Banjo of the Civil War and Antebellum Period
Minstrel Banjo Style (with other musicians, period songs)
Ford Tennessee Ernie
Songs of the Civil War
Gettysburg
Film Sound Track
More Songs and Music
Film Sound Track
Harmoneion Singers
Songs of the Civil War
Hartford John
Live at the College Station Pennsylvania (some ACW songs)
Heritage American Brass Band
Civil War Military Music
Horton Bobby
Songs of the Confederate Army Vol I to V
Songs of the Union Army Vols 1 to VI
Hues of Blues And Greys
Homespun Songs of Vicksburg
Songs of Faith (religious songs, some definitely period songs)
A Treasury of Civil War Songs
Keys Will
A Banjo Original (some ACW songs)
Kincaid David
The Irish Volunteer (a couple of modern songs)
Mathews Dave
Shades of Blue and Gray
A Nations Broken Soul
Olde Towne Brass
Music of the Blue and the Gray Vol 1
A Southron Serenade
Prairie Land String Band
First Harvest
Seems like Yesterday
A Tune we can Share
Give me your Hand
Over the Waterfall
Rabbai George (Chief Bugler, 12th New Jersey Vol Inf)
Infantry Bugle Calls of the American Civil War
Rebulaires
Great-Great-Grandsons of Confederate soldiers (modern songs?)
Reno Don & Smiley Red
Folk songs of the Civil War (modern songs)
Sandy River Minstrels
Dandy Jim From Caroline (period songs)
Shipley Kathleen
Kathleen Mavureen (inc period songs)
The Gray & the Green (inc period songs)
Skinner David Ray
John Hunt Morgan: A Southern Legend
Southern Horizon
The Girl I Left Behind me
Tunes of Glory
Southern Lace
Beautiful Dreamer (period songs)
Symphonic Trilogy
The American Civil War
Taylor Jim
The Civil War Collection
Stone Grey Day (modern songs)
Epitaph
Un-reconstructed
Cotton Bales and Barley (period songs)
Thistle 'n Dixie
Various Artists
Songs of the Civil War
White Mansions (modern songs)
Legend of Jesse James (modern songs post war)
The Civil War Collection (inc period songs)
Music Reviewed
