[Joe 6-pack]

Mel Gibson's The Patriot is pretty good...worth watching this weekend and over the Fourth of July.

The Great Raid is a somewhat obscure film about the 6th Ranger Battalion's liberation of the Cabanatuan Prison camp in January 1945.

Gods and Generals was not particularly well received by critics, but IMHO, is much better than the prequel, and fleshes out the human dimensions of Jackson, Chamberlain, and Lee.

[JoeA]

The best part of Gods and Generals is Robert Duvall's portrayal of Robt. E. Lee. It puts to shame Martin Sheen's wooden "acting" in Gettyburg.