The Last Days of the Civil War: Here is a collection of Civil War documentaries in a package supposedly about, well, the last days of the Civil War. Strangely enough, that is not entirely the case. While it does include the magnificent documentary April 1865, it also includes some episodes of Civil War Journal, Biography and Civil War Combat. While I normally would not complain, I had already bought the Robert E. Lee documentary as well as the episode of Civil War Combat on other previously released (and still in print) History Channel collections.

I was also disappointed to find the Civil War Journal episodes were the redubbed versions without the narration and host segments with Danny Glover. I am no fan of Danny Glover and this narrator is much easier on the ears than Glover, I do like to keep things original.

What this set does have going for it is April 1865. It is a fantastic day by day approach to, as the documentary rightfully put it, "the month that changed America."

I suppose it's not bad for the reduced price of $9 I paid but I wouldn't pay much more.

Labels: Civil War, Documentary, History