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Article: Devil or god? Filmmakers' Lee is neither.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2000
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Few persons from 19th-century America make front-page news today as often as Robert Edward Lee. No matter what one thinks of Lee - and everyone seems to have an opinion - it is impossible to argue against the statement that the military leader of the Confederacy is one of the most influential Americans in our history.
Recently, we completed "Lee: Beyond the Battles," a documentary film examining the life of Robert E. Lee. During the past seven years, we journeyed with camera and Emmy-winning photographer Marcus Smith along the long roads of Lee's life - from his birth at Stratford Hall in Westmoreland County, Va., to his death at what was then Washington ...