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-- Synopsis -- Part One - 1619 Virginia - The First African Slaves arrive. Life in Africa and the beginning of the European Slave Trade as an industry to drive the New World…. Part Two - 18th Century Colonial America and Slavery under the rule of the British Empire. “The Middle Passage” and the Atlantic Slave Trade… Part Three - Slavery in the United States after the Revolution. Slavery and the Constitution. Slave Revolt in the Caribbean… Part Four - Nat Turner’s Rebellion, 1831. Amistad story 1839. Birth of Harriet Tubman. Frederick Douglass. Sojourner Truth. The Underground Railroad begins… Part Five - Calls for abolition from the North grows. 1850 Fugitive slave laws. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Bloody Kansas… Part Six - The Civil War. Emancipation Proclamation. United States Colored Troops…Part Seven - Aftermath of the Civil War and new “freedom”. Reconstruction in the south. The 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments to the Constitution. Creation and rise of the Klan in the south.
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-- Synopsis -- An all-new exciting and insightful 60-minute, live-action documentary DVD on the life, uniforms, drill and battles of some of the hardest fighting brigades for the Union army in the eastern theater of the Civil War: The mid-western Iron Brigade... the immigrant Irish Brigade and the New England Vermont Brigade. Also analyzed are specialized fighting units like the Pennsylvania Bucktails and the German immigrants of the Union 11th Corps. No other documentary has told the story of the common soldier of the Union Army of the Potomac like this.
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-- Synopsis -- “The Battles That Broke the Backbone of the South” An impressive and
epic commemoration of the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta.
The story of this pivotal 1864 Campaign from Tennessee to the Sea is
witnessed and told from the common soldier's point of view. Kennesaw
Mountain... Cheatham's Hill... Atlanta... Kilpatrick's Raid... Jonesboro...
Four large-scale re-enactments between September 4 - 6, 2009; each taking
place at the historic Nash Farm Battlefield in Hampton, Georgia.
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-- Synopsis -- “The Battle Along the River of Death” An epic commemoration
of the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga, tells the story
of the pivotal 1863 battle in the western theater from the common soldier's
point of view. This battle was the most significant Union defeat in
the Western Theater, and fought with the second highest number of casualties
in the war after Gettysburg. Featuring nearly 5,000 re-enactors, no
other docu-drama or film has placed you on the battlefield at Chickamauga
quite like this. Five large-scale re-enactments between September 19-21,
2008; each taking place on a portion of the original battlefield.
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-- Synopsis -- A 2-DVD set commemorating the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg tells the story of the re-enactment and the 1863 battle from the soldier's point-of-view. Featuring nearly 15,000 re-enactors. 90 minute docu-drama feature film, extensive special features and hours of additional re-enactment footage from the weekend's event. Approx. 240 minutes
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-- Synopsis -- September
3, 1777. The first significant engagement of the British campaign to capture
Philadelphia. This battle led to the British victory at Brandywine a few
days later, and the final capture of Philadelphia. This is the largest
fight in Delaware during the Revolution, and some say, the first time
the American Stars-and-Stripes were flown on the battlefield. 45 minutes
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-- Synopsis -- An exciting and insightful new 60-minute, live-action documentary DVD on the life, uniforms and drill of the eastern theater Confederate Soldier - the soldiers of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia... The film analyzes the uniforms, drill, camp life, food, weapons, equipment, etc. of the Confederate soldier of the eastern theater.
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-- Synopsis -- This extensive and exclusive DVD celebrates the 225th anniversary re-enactment of America s momentous 1781 Revolutionary War victory at Yorktown, Virginia. Within days of the actual anniversary of the formal British surrender, nearly 2,000 re-enactors met on the original, hollowed "Surrender Field" to commemorate the British defeat -- Never since 1781 had this event been re-staged so authentically. Nearly 3 hours of content!
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-- Synopsis -- A 60-minute, live-action documentary DVD on the life, uniforms and drill of the Continental Soldier 1775-1781... The film analyzes the uniforms, drill, camp life, food, weapons, equipment, etc. of the soldiers. 60 minutes.
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-- Synopsis -- The first re-enactment ever of this important Virginia Battle - July 6, 1781, and prelude to the siege and battle for Yorktown only a few months later. Includes a documentary about the original battle and the recent effort to save the battlefield lands from development. Our cameras were "embedded" with these 18th century re-enactors for a unique documentary experience. 45 minutes.
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-- Synopsis -- The true story of the Confederacy's last great invasion of the north, in July 1864, and the subsequent attack on Washington, D.C. that almost brought the northern war effort to its knees.
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-- Synopsis -- Kevin Hershberger and LionHeart FilmWorks' first full-length motion picture. Starring Brian Merrick and DJ Perry as Confederate and Union soldiers caught up and lost in the battle of the Wilderness in 1864.
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