Review of Gettysburg

I watched this mainly because Facebook reels kept showing me clips of it, and the "prequel" Gods and Generals. 

There are lots of bad reviews, but it seemed a fairly decent battle picture, not prettifying war though perhaps investing it with more grandeur and dignity than it deserves. We do see men die and get wounded, but we don't see the after-effects or the gruesome battlefield amputations or deaths from festering wounds. 

It is very very long - four and a half hours. I treated it like a series and watched it in chunks.

There were a few map shots at the beginning but I think I would have appreciated a bit moe about the strategic significance of the battle, and some understanding of how the war went on for so long after this "decisive" battle.

Watched on a USB stick via informal distribution.