C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) on Netflix
The Confederate States of America won the Civil War and annexed the North. A British documentary follows the nation's history, with historians Sherman Hoyle and Patricia Johnson.
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Plot summary
In a British documentary, two historians look back at a different America. Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederacy's secretary of state, persuades Britain and France to join the war by presenting it as a question of states' rights rather than slavery. Confederate troops with their allies win at Gettysburg, and in 1865 Robert E. Lee receives Ulysses S. Grant's surrender. The Confederate States annex the North, and northern cities are burned and looted. Robert E. Lee, remorseful at the atrocities, advocates emancipation, while Virginia congressman and slaveowner John Ambrose Fauntroy campaigns to keep slavery. The Davis Plan, which Fauntroy oversees, brings slavery back to the former Union states and taxes northerners who own no slaves. In the documentary, Confederate historian Sherman Hoyle praises Confederate values while African-Canadian historian Patricia Johnson speaks for the enslaved and oppressed.
Cast
- Greg Kirschas Confederate Family Dad
- Rupert Pateas Sherman Hoyle
- Ryan L. Carrollas Bobby
- Brian Pauletteas Jefferson Davis
- Larry Petersonas John Ambrose Fauntroy V
- Evamarii Johnsonas Patricia Johnson
- Greg Hurdas Mr. Johnson
- Kevin McKinneyas Blackface Abraham Lincoln
- Will Averillas Blackface Harriet Tubman
- Matthew Simonas Cartwright Doctor
- Robert Sokolas Ruben Weinstein
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- Renee Patrickas Confederate Family Mom
- Molly Grahamas Confederate Family Child
- William Willmottas Confederate Family Slave / Frederick Douglas (voice) (as Will Willmott)
- Don Carltonas Colonel Bloodhound
- Arlo Kasperas Old Abraham Lincoln
- Joe Bugnias Car Guy No. 1
- Troy Mooreas Car Guy No. 2
- Jennifer Covilleas Daisie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)
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- Willmott, who had earlier written a screenplay about the abolitionist John Brown, told interviewers that he was inspired to write the story after seeing an episode of Ken Burns' 1990 television documentary miniseries The Civil War.
