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Article: The Civil War.(Video recording review)
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- Military Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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THE CIVIL WAR, A&E Television, The History Channel, 2007, 10 hours, $49.95, DVD.
Its liner notes announce that The Civil War, the History Channel's new handsomely boxed set of six DVDs, is "the definitive collection of programming on the War Between the States," one that "explores every aspect of this great conflict." These ambitious claims fall short, however, because The Civil War lacks a thematic organization or premise beyond Civil War hagiography.
This set is a compilation of twelve episodes culled from Civil War Journal: The Conflict Begins; Civil War Journal: The Commanders; and Civil War Combat, arranged according to production rather than ...