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Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories

“A spectacular blending of drama, plot twists and battlefield action.”

—PREMIERE MOVIE MAGAZINE

Legendary writer Ambrose Bierce was known to be brilliant, cantankerous and romantic in all his life's passions, and was revered as one of the top storytellers of the late 19th Century. In 1890, he presented his recently published collection of Civil War Stories to novelist Gertrude Atherton and fledgling young publisher William Randolph Hearst during an infamous meeting in Sonol, California. This meeting sets the forum for the presentation of three of Bierce's most popular stories including "One Kind Of Officer", "Story Of A Conscience" and "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge." This acclaimed collection features epic battle sequences, deeply conflicted drama and the signature "surprise endings" that characterized most of the short stories by Ambrose Bierce.

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Schilling portrays famed writer, Gertrude Atherton, opposite Campbell Scott's Ambrose Bierce in "Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories."
Vivian Schilling portrays famed writer, Gertrude Atherton, opposite Campbell Scott's Ambrose Bierce in "Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories."

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Campbell Scott as Ambrose Bierce
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The Civil War

 
 

Vivian appears as a guest speaker at the National Archives in Washington, DC, at the “Discovering the Civil War” Film & Lecture Series.

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AMBROSE BIERCE CIVIL WAR STORIES
2006
1h 33min
Biography, Drama, History

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