[HamiltonJay]

Well this article certainly does a better job of portraying what the hell this movie is about than the advertising has done....

[justshutupandtakeit]

It is an excellent movie with this year's Academy Award winner as best actor. Why bb is shocked that it shows the historical truth about the riots is a mystery since there has never been any doubt about who was rioting or why. Nor that the RAT machine hated Lincoln and supported efforts to destroy the Union. Nor that the RAT machine based its power on criminality, corruption and vote fraud. Nor that the RAT-controlled immigrant areas were filled with police corruption and violence on a massive scale.

When those gangs "rumbled" there were pitched battles often with thousands involved and deaths and maiming galore.

Gangs of today are no where near as violent.