Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

bjboulden Who ever at PBS who cancelled this show , should be fired. This was one of the best shows ever on TV. Fantastic acting, stories and educational. PBS blew it on this one big time.

20thCentureeBoy Woefully overacted, terribly clichéd story lines, and obvious characters. In those few instances when a character is not a cookie-cutter archetype, it is a transparent and predictable attempt to depart from an archetype. Extras are dismally unbelievable, and the battlefields, while infrequent, lack scale. The Civil War was sweeping in scale and rife with drama - certainly fertile ground for a storyteller with an ounch of imagination. It's difficult to understand how anyone could so miserably fail to capture the scope, scale and drama of the war. Absolutely unwatchable by anyone but lovers of romance novels and unbearable melodrama. On the plus side, the props and attire seem to be pretty authentic.

George Barr Frank Stringfellow was my great great grandfather. My grandfather spoke of him from first hand knowledge. There are books available that reference his behavior during the war. HE NEVER, EVER, MURDERED A MAN, MUCH LESS IN BED. He was good at capturing enemy soldiers, outwitting them and slipping through very close encounters. He was no murderer. Shame on the writers. Mary Phinney's character is interesting and very well played, as is Dr. Foster's. I enjoy the way that North meets South in the hospital. While I am descended from Frank Stringfellow, the Scout, I am also descended from Samuel Lincoln, Abraham's uncle. I have always felt how divisive the war was within families. I did not anticipate a documentary. I also did not anticipate character assassination.

sesack4th every word spoken makes me cringe. the acting is at the high school level. the characters are caricatures. patients not fed? seriously? The head of the kitchens a subhuman worm. some of the doctors barely trained as evidenced by being unable to perform procedures that were in common practice in the middle ages. this a masterpiece classic? they say the patients are to be bathed. with blood red dirty water? has any attempt been made to research the era? this was the age of the dawn of modern medicine. they used chloroform. they used traction devices. but didn't feed their patients? have you seen Ripper Street? this could have been a masterpiece instead of a farce.