Jeff Daniels as Col Joshua L. Chamberlain in ‘Gettysburg’

A Film by Ronald F. Maxwell

Jeff Daniels, right of centre. Source: Pinterest

Acclaimed screenwriter and director Ronald F Maxwell’s 1993 epic film Gettysburg is a labour of love that reveals itself in every frame of its 4 hour span. Not a second is wasted in falsification of fact, or in the temptation to impose 21st century sensibilities upon the actions, reactions and thoughts of people enfolded within a battle…