[BenLurkin]

Good movie and accurate as to the evetns.

Minor complaints: Fat Confederates (re-enactors I know) and some phony looking beards....

[Night Hides Not]

If I was teaching American history, I'd use carefully edited portions from all of the movies mentioned, plus adding "The Kent Family Chronicles" (all 10 novels by John Jakes), Michener's "Texas", and other edited portions from the John Adam miniseries on HBO.

I'd love to assemble a curriculum for American History, with resources from a central textbook, supplemented by movies/video, and biographies.

"Band of Brothers" would also be included. I'm getting ready to start my 11th year of teaching Old Testament to the 6th graders in my parish. I use the episode where Easy Company stumbles onto a concentration camp (in a lesson on "Living One's Faith", which includes the Holocaust). How the producers got it so right is beyond me.