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Gettysburg is a 1993 movie that dramatizes the decisive Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. It was directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, who also wrote the screenplay, a close adaptation of Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 novel The Killer Angels.

Gettysburg runs 254 minutes (4 hours, 14 minutes) on VHS and DVD. An 'Editor's Cut', with several extended or deleted scenes, was produced and sold as a part of a special VHS boxed 'Collector's Edition', which also included Mort Künstler's book of Gettysburg paintings, an original Civil War lead bullet, some stock photographs of key officers from the battle, and other items. The editor's cut has not appeared on any DVDs to date.

A prequel, Gods and Generals
, was released in 2003.

Cast

Martin Sheen
as Robert E. Lee
Tom Berenger
as Gen. James Longstreet
Jeff Daniels
as Col. Joshua Chamberlain
Sam Elliott
as Gen. John Buford
Stephen Lang
as Gen. George Pickett
C. Thomas Howell
as Tom Chamberlain
Kevin Conway
as Sergeant "Buster" Kilrain, the only fictional character in the movie.
Joseph Fuqua
as J.E.B. Stuart

Ted Turner, who helped bankroll the project (originally planned as a miniseries for TNT), is visible on-screen for a few seconds as a re-enactor during the Pickett's Charge sequence.
Ken Burns, who produced the PBS documentary, The Civil War
, also has a cameo.

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