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This is why it is still taught at West Point as small unit tactics.

I think the move to “refuse the line” is where my heart swells the most

Thomas Chamberlain how many times did i say not to say it in front of the men

i don't know

don't be long Thomas Chamberlain

I also had relayives who fouhht on both sides in the civil war. Cooks ,lees ,and odays and ocooks also .whars sad even now is the fact theybwere all americans .of course immigrants in search of a better life .

I love the movie and have studied the battle ghettysburgh battle .,what's always amazed me is the fact of the actors who portrayed the men how similar they all looked so much like the real men ..never been there maybe one day I'll get to visit .

make ready present fire

make each day count 😊

what oh no 😞

i don't know 😔

Colonel?! Colonel?! Colonel?!

don't be long Thomas

It's a damn shame brother against brother but both fighting for what they believe in. Great movie

The opening sequence is very unrealistic. They have cannon balls exploding 30 feet from the men and nobody is injured, they don't even flinch.

The Stars and Bars were the flag of North Carolina.

Music detracted from the scene

When I was serving in the Army i always thought I hope to god I never fight a war when someone shouts "fix bayonets"

I had a relative fight in the civil war. I'm embarrassed to say I don't know what unit he was with. He was born in Erie county...?

True or not true you will experience things no one you have knownb or will ever know (G Watts and C Drury) about 45 years apart

Just think a couple of these guys lived to see Pearl Harbor.

Harrison: "Sir, with your permission, I'll get myself that musket, sir." Viggo: "Did he hear a fucking word I said?"

They rewarded the Maine boys by putting them in the center of the line where there was no activity. Then Picketts charge came right at them

Long live the rebellion!

Too bad we never got to see the charge of Colonel Paddy O'Rorke and the 140th New York in the movie.

I'll bet whole damn reb army's coming this way.

Never ever fuck with the US ARMY!....especially the Maine boys!............fuckin' ay Jack!

I bet that hillside was so smoky you couldn’t see shit. Must have been insane.

Civil War reenactor here. Meanwhile, the regiment that I reenact, the 4th US Infantry [along with the rest of Sykes' Regulars], were buying the 20th ME the 20 minutes they needed to get to the top of LRT with their lives in a muddy piece of almost-swamp at the base of the Round Tops called Plum Run. Maj. Gen. Romeyn Ayres had command of the Regulars Division [2nd of 5th Corps] at Gettysburg and he was asked if any 'old regulars' have reunions like the volunteer regiments did in the years after the War. He is quoted as saying: "I had a division of Regulars during the War. I buried half of them at Gettysburg and half of them in the Wilderness. There are not any 'old regulars' any more."

Courage in politics is comparable. Watch Tommy Lee Jones in the movie, "Lincoln". He had the dedication, tenacity and courage to stand fast and GET THAT BILL PASSED. Very similar to battlefield courage; in fact, a LOT MORE! The excitement of combat is a great stimulus. BUT STANDING FAST UNDER THE PRESSURE OF POLITICAL PRESSURES IS EVEN MORE SO!

I watched this entire epic while hanging out in a Nebraska motel with my kids during a family reunion on my wife’s side. The inspiring tale of standing up to Confederate bigotry was fresh in my mind when we visited a restaurant in Arapahoe where a sign said “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.” It was aimed at Immigrant workers and Native Americans. That was in the 1990s. For all the sacrifice of the Civil War the scourge of bigotry still reigns in much of the United States. And the Confederate flag flew during the Neo-Civil War of the Trump-led insurrection. Our history is ignored by those selfish enough to claim victimization while victimizing others. That’s what the Civil War was about.

there's no need for language buster

ahh the confedrits is coming

hello Govnor Warren

Maxwell Caulfield did a great job playing the excellent but ill fated Strong Vincent.

Pickrtts charge

Wonder what the world would look like if they lost at Gettysburg

Somebody needs to learn how to record......

“Just wait here and there’ll soon be guns available”. Ominous.

that is the whole point of a battle flag, same as the confederates, the absolute ignorance of anyone who thinks that the confederate battle flag had any political meaning whatsoever is an ignoramous.

“I suggest you find a thicker tree.” One of many great lines in this scene.

"We are going to have to be stubborn today". Subtle, but it conveys the urgency of their mission and their duty.

How can you stand it? This is not factual, nor real, nor believable. THERE WAS NO ORCHESTRA playing at Little Round Top. And the noisy bar stewards just kept playing. It loses all credibility with that one thing. I have got to 2:52, but no more, and I won't watch Pt 4.

Harrison: "Today i think I'd like to join the attack". Longstreet: "We need every swinging dick in the field".

"Gentlemen, we are the flank."

Col Chamberlain is my great great grandfather

Its old but one of the best movies. A question to the history: Why did nobody reinforce chamberlain? The noise of fighting or a massanger from chamberlain... or simply the neighboor regiments on the right should notice this. Why were their no reinforcements on the way? And the union had reinforcements available. Or maybe why did the neighborring not so hard fighting regiments not send some units to him. But at the end.. i do not understand why Chamberlains hold is so famous. He did not save the union army in gettysburg. Yes if he failed the battle were lost and the union had to retreat. But if Greene at Culps Hill had failed the whole escape route were blocked and the union had lost the supply train and ammo. And without a street most of the cannons. The loose of Greene would be way more citical than chamberlain. But most of the people did not know this. Reynolds yes, Buford yes, Chamberlain yes.. but Doubleday or Greene no. Doubleday was the commander of the 2nd corps after Reynolds death and he made his job really great. Maybe he saved the union at day 1. But he was wounded, replaced and forgotten.

A film worth watching for all they got right, despite all they got wrong. There were no trees on Little Round Top during the battle; the hill had been cleared for timber earlier that summer. And, the entire premise of the film is constructed about two completely false ideas. The first is that the novel's author, Michael Shaara, bases his view of the battle on the false memoirs of James Longstreet. The things he claimed in his book, namely that Lee got everything wrong because he wouldn't listen to Longstreet, who got everything right, is wholly false. Clifford Dowdey, amongst others, proved that the conversations Longstreet claimed took place with Lee never happened. Second is Shaara's supposition that all Southerners were arrogant, imperious and evil, and fought a war to promote slavery and racism. Nothing could be further from the truth. Only 7% of Southerners owned slaves, and they knew slavery would soon end. They were fighting for their Constitutional rights, which were being suppressed - and anyone can find the proof of this by simply reading a few books. Besides - while 11 slaveholding states seceded, 6 did not. If the war was about slavery, why didn't the Federal government outlaw slavery until after the war was over - and why did six states remaining in the union keep their slaves throughout the war?

but y the background music?

'No man will call me a coward'. 20th Maine.