The Divided Union: The Story of the American Civil War

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"From the wooden narration to the poor editing, the low budget, lack of care, and indifference to the subject matter of the production crew is obvious. When CDs became the dominant medium for software distribution, the term "shovelware" was coined, being a CD with content shoveled onto it haphazardly in the effort to make a cheap dollar. This documentary is shovelware. Massive amounts of stock footage, mostly of Civil War re-enactments, intersperses with interviews with subject matter experts whose views are often biased and sometimes contrafactual. The opening title sequence itself h..."