CSA: The Confederate States of America

You will either think that this is one of the most brilliant movies ever made, or you will hate it. There is not really a gray area. I think it's incredible. In the commentaries-there are two different ones-filmmaker Kevin Willmott says that this took three years, and one can see how serious everyone on this film took this project. It's set up as a British documentary spanning history from the South's win over the North, to about 2000. The key thing, and it's a very big key to this film is that in order to heal the country President Jefferson Davis decrees that all citizens become slave owners or pay a hefty tax. One of the best and most clever scenes is the footage of the Kennedy and Nixon debate, Willmott used this perfectly. The movie has fake commercial breaks showing different products. You see at the end, the truth about these products and the historical facts. The DVD also has the before mentioned commentaries, a couple of interviews and a deleted scenes menu. So it is in some was quite historically wrong, but it makes you think, and that's what the objective was.