No thank you. I'd rather ride with the devil ...
The movie does not make internal logic.
The CSA controlls not only the USA but Canada and Mexico as well.
The CSA is being brought to its knees economically by a European embargo?
Yeah right. Among other stupid facts about this alternate future.
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As a person that loves a good alternative history story, I found that movie to be so poorly thought out that I had to force myself through each agonizing minute of it hoping for something that could make it at least entertaining.
I mean, come on! the Northern states just up and decide to join the Confederacy, and that almost complete annexation of the whole of the western hemisphere? Not to mention slavery magically running into the 21st century.
You would get laughed off of an alternative history forum if you presented that.
Don't expect to hear on this program, that only 5 percent of the soldiers of the Confederacy owned slaves, and they didn't leave home to die for the protection of someone else right to own slaves, but to fight against what they viewed as an invading army.
Don't expect to hear that the first state to legalize slavery was not in the South.
Don't expect to hear that the slaves ships were built and outfitted in New York.
And don't expect the show to mention Lincoln did not free all the slaves. That the slave States who agreed not to join the confederacy were alooud to keep their slaves.
don’t waste your time, it’s by that racist POS spike lee
I thought it was stupid.
It worked from the supposition that the Civil War was only about slavery. It also supposed that had the Civil War hadn’t been fought, that slavery would still exist. And, that somehow, the Confederacy was imperialistic, and would have taken over the entire North American continent.
I don’t buy any of these ultra simplistic, poorly thought out concepts. I like alternative history, but this was just dumb.
It was on the Documentary Channel last night. It was awful and infuriating.
That was fascinating...a bit over the top in some of the commercials, but otherwise mostly believable.
I watched it. I found the thing to be dishonest at best. It rewrote the history leading up to the war as well. The civil war was fought for the wrong reasons but would have been fought eventually anyway. It is ironic that muslims practicing slavery in the real, modern world was omitted.
No thank you. I'd rather ride with the devil ...