More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...

The imminent battlefield was 57 miles away, and already the first guns had sounded along Bull Run. Beauregard spread his brigades on a nearly ten-mile front behind the winding stream, from near Stone ...

The American Civil War erupted in 1861 with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, followed soon after by the First Battle of Bull Run. This video traces the opening shots of the war, the shockwaves ...

Mathew Brady and his legacy -- The first Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) -- Port Royal and Fort Pulaski -- The Federal Navy -- The Battle of the Ironclads -- The Peninsular campaign -- The second Battle ...