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Urgent and complex, Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) travels across the United States, exploring how Americans tell the story of their Civil War. Filmed from the last year of Obama’s presidency through the present, it interweaves insightful scenes and touching interviews filmed North and South, painting a uniquely crafted, multi-faceted portrait of the American psyche and the deep roots of its turbulent times. With delicacy and strength, subtlety and determination, Civil War lays bare a nation in denial, haunted by an embittered past and the stories it refuses to tell.
Original Release
06/17/2021
US Release
06/17/2021
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Rachel Boynton | Self - Documentary Filmmaker |
| David Blight | Self - Author, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory |
| Chris Carpenter | Self - Chattanooga School Teacher |
| Kellie Carter Jackson | Self - Author, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (America in the Nineteenth Century) |
| Frank Smith Jr. | Self - Director, African American Civil War Memorial and Museum |
| Dale Julius | Self - East Bridgewater Civil War Roundtable |
| Greg Carr | Self - Professor, Howard University |
| James Robinson | Self - Resident of Clinton, Mississippi |
| Deborah robinson | Self - Resident of Clinton, Mississippi |
| William Shirley | Self - Mississippi State Representative |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Rachel Boynton | Self - Documentary Filmmaker |
| David Blight | Self - Author, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory |
| Chris Carpenter | Self - Chattanooga School Teacher |
| Kellie Carter Jackson | Self - Author, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (America in the Nineteenth Century) |
| Frank Smith Jr. | Self - Director, African American Civil War Memorial and Museum |
| Dale Julius | Self - East Bridgewater Civil War Roundtable |
| Greg Carr | Self - Professor, Howard University |
| James Robinson | Self - Resident of Clinton, Mississippi |
| Deborah robinson | Self - Resident of Clinton, Mississippi |
| William Shirley | Self - Mississippi State Representative |
| Malcolm Suber | Self - Take 'Em Down NOLA |
| Chris McDaniel | Self - Mississippi State Senator |
| Ibram X. Kendi | Self - Director, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research |
| Kehinde Wiley | Self - Artist |
| Isabel Wilkerson | Self - Author, The Warmth of Other Suns |
| Cate Arnold | Self - Boston School Teacher |
| Robert Epperson | Self - Sons Of Confederate Veterans |
| Herbert DeLoach Jr. | Self - Sons Of Confederate Veterans |
| Antwayn Patrick | Self - Lexington School Teacher |
| Clyde Magee | Self - Resident of Mize, Mississippi |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Dede Gardner | Executive Producer |
| Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Executive Producer |
| Jeremy Kleiner | Executive Producer |
| Robert Kravitz | Executive Producer |
| Brad Pitt | Executive Producer |
| Sam Pollard | Executive Producer |
| Rick Rosenthal | Executive Producer |
| Steven Shainberg | Executive Producer |
| Robert Kravis | Executive Producer |
| Rachel Boynton | Producer |
| Erika Dilday | Producer |
| Thea Piltzecker | Producer |
Editors
