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C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America is a 2004 mockumentary directed by Kevin Willmott. It is a fictional account of an alternate history in which the Confederates won the American Civil War.

The movie is presented as if it was a British documentary. A note suggests that censorship came close to preventing its first broadcast in the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.), and that its point of view might not coincide with that of the TV network.

Plot

C.S.A. is shown as a British-made documentary about American history, disagreeing with American people in many aspects. The two main historians featured are white conservative Sherman Hoyle and black Patricia Johnson. Throughout the film, an American politician, Democratic candidate John Fauntroy V, great-grandchild of one of the people who made the C.S.A. possible, is interviewed. A voice-over narrator is also featured over false images and footage, including a false D.W. Griffith movie about how Abraham Lincoln, disguised in blackface, tries to flee to Canada after the Confederacy's military victory.

In the fictional timeline, the C.S.A. becomes the Western hemisphere superpower, conquering and occupying all of Central America and South America, with a blend of segregation and apartheid. The only non-C.S.A. nation in the Western Hemisphere is Canada, which becomes a home for refugee abolitionists and blacks; the wall constructed to separate the two nations is referred to as the "Cotton Curtain".

The film contains a version of World War II where the C.S.A. were allies with Nazi Germany, but didn't agree with Hitler's final solution; the C.S.A preferred using other races as slaves instead of destroying them, but agreed not to act in any possible war Germany could have.

C.S.A. includes several advertisement breaks, featuring racist advertisements for products aimed at white families owning black slaves, such as an electronic shackle to track runaway slaves.

The end of the film contains a segment where it explains what part of its alternate timeline are based on actual history, including people, events, and many of the extremely racist products shown in its advertisments.

Cast and crew

Crew

Director: Kevin Willmott
Writer: Kevin Willmott
Producers: Rick Cowan, Ollie Hall, Sean Blake, Victoria Goetz, Benjamin Meade, Andrew Herwitz and Marvin Voth. (The film is a Spike Lee
production.)

Main cast

Sherman Hoyle: Rupert Pate
Patricia Johnson: Evamarii Johnson
John Fauntroy V: Larry Peterson
Narrator: Charles Frank

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