[steve-b]

The sense I get from viewers' comments is that the movie tried very hard to present character portraits that show why these men fought and believed that God was on their side, but it just didn't come off properly and sank into caricature.

[condi2008]

The sense I get from viewers' comments is that the movie tried very hard to present character portraits that show why these men fought and believed that God was on their side, but it just didn't come off properly and sank into caricature.
The thing is, if you've read the historical accounts and well-researched biographies, those portrayals were accurate. If it appears false to us with our modern experiences, it is because of our own perspective.
I heard it said just yesterday, that if we object to their 19th-century views, it is for us as if we were midgets standing on the shoulders of giants. We can see much further than they; but only because of what they have done before us. We cannot fault them for the distance vision they did not have at the time.