On 8 November 1864, Lincoln got elected for a second term. Thus, i review this related documentary exactly one hundred and fifty years after it. As you can see in my account, this time equals the JFK assassination (50 years) plus Titanic sinking (100 years). This way, i can grasp what the past is really about and better understand what we can call modern time. Thus, with this video, i know that 150 years is also the invention of photography and more tragically, the start of technological (mass destructive) wars as the Secession War was indeed the first conflict in the world to use those new modern weapons (rifles, guns, canons,...).
The highlight of this documentary is thus its painting of the Gettysburg battle. A good point also was the explanation of the fight pro/against slavery (even if America being a true Republic, this question should never have existed: a free state is a state without slaves)! But those two tales point the failure of this documentary as it mixes thus American history and Presidents!
We are so brainwashed about them that we don't realize that we must distinguish what people do and what do the elected man in the oval office. So instead of mixing everything in a confuse time-line, this documentary should have focus only on the acts of POTUS and forget the gossips about their private life as well! Here, you got the false feeling that incompetents presidents have started the secession war and that godly Lincoln has ended it as well as slavery! History is not so clear-cut, so easy because it's the result of billions individual decisions..
The highlight of this documentary is thus its painting of the Gettysburg battle. A good point also was the explanation of the fight pro/against slavery (even if America being a true Republic, this question should never have existed: a free state is a state without slaves)! But those two tales point the failure of this documentary as it mixes thus American history and Presidents!
We are so brainwashed about them that we don't realize that we must distinguish what people do and what do the elected man in the oval office. So instead of mixing everything in a confuse time-line, this documentary should have focus only on the acts of POTUS and forget the gossips about their private life as well! Here, you got the false feeling that incompetents presidents have started the secession war and that godly Lincoln has ended it as well as slavery! History is not so clear-cut, so easy because it's the result of billions individual decisions..
