Gettysburg poster
Director Ronald F. Maxwell
Screenplay Ronald F. Maxwell

Gettysburg

Tagline: Same Land. Same God. Different Dreams.

Release Date: 1993-10-08

Duration: 254 minutes

Synopsis

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

Casting

  • Sam Elliott
    Brig. Gen. John Buford
  • Tom Berenger
    Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet
  • Stephen Lang
    Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett
  • Martin Sheen
    Gen. Robert E. Lee
  • C. Thomas Howell
    Lieut. Thomas D. Chamberlain
  • Donal Logue
    Capt. Ellis Spear
  • John Diehl
    Pvt. Bucklin
  • Billy Campbell
    Lieut. Pitzer
  • Buck Taylor
    Col. William Gamble
  • Kevin Conway
    Sergeant Buster Kilrain