Based on the novel by Jeff Shaara.

Special features: introduction by Ted Turner; commentary by director Ron Maxwell, Colonel Keith E. Gibson, executive director of the Virginia Military Institute Museum and James I. Robertson Jr.; "Journey to the past" BET special; life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson; Bob Dylan's "Cross the Green Mountain" music video; Mary Fahl's "Going home" music video; theatrical trailer; DVD-ROM enabled.

Director of photography, Kees van Oostrum ; editor, Corky Ehlers ; music composers, John Frizzell, Randy Edelman ; costume designer, Richard LaMotte ; production designer, Michael Hanan ; visual effects producer, Thomas C. Smith.

Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Mira Sorvino, Kevin Conway, C. Thomas Howell, Frankie Faison, Jeremy London, Bruce Boxleitner.

Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson, and Lee are followed through the declaration of war and the battles at Manassas, Antietam, Frederickburg, and Chancellorsville.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for sustained battle sequences.

DVD, Dolby digital, DTS, Region 1 encoding.

Closed-captioned.