This sounds very good.  Is it going to make the rounds of theaters or will
it be on DVD for folks like me out in the boonies to purchase?

It apparently is the latest in a procession of "If the Confederacy had one".
I believe that in the Centennial of The War, Bruce Catton even wrote one.
(I may have the author wrong.)

Harry Turtledove wrote a very interesting one about ten years ago called
"Guns of the South."  It caught my attention because General Lee was
standing on the front of the book with an AK-47.  I think that Turtledove
went on to write alternative histories of WWII.

re The War and Jamestowne, I heard an intersting premise this last weekend
that one reason that the nation does not recognize Jamestowne as The First,
but defers to those latecomers Pilgrims as The First Thanksgiving, The First
English settlers, etc. was that that South lost The War.   Therefore
political correctness of the time could not accept the English "first" in
the commonwealth of Virginia.  Interesting.

Randy Cabell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Wiencek" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 9:24 PM
Subject: CSA-- Confederate States of America


>I urge anyone in range of Charlottesville to come in and see the new
> "mockumentary" film "CSA-- Confederate States of America," which is
> terrific.  For those who haven't heard, the premise is that the
> Confederacy
> won the war, and the "documentary" traces the history of the nation from
> the
> southern victory at Gettysburg to the present time.  From the early
> publicity I had expected a simple-minded, southern-bashing romp, but the
> film does not do that at all, and instead we get something far better and
> much deeper.  Don't worry- it's funny, and you will leave it in a mood to
> argue.  It's in limited release now, and I'm told that some theaters won't
> book it.  Tell your local 8-screen cineplex to get it!
>
> Henry Wiencek
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