Civil War Chronicles: Miniseries Collection: Beulah Land / The Blue and the Gray

Beulah Land (1980)

Based on the novels by Lonnie Coleman, this epic miniseries chronicles the collapse of the Old South, following the trials and tribulations of an aristocratic plantation family from the late 1820s through the tumultuous Reconstruction. Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert, Hope Lange, Jenny Agutter, Meredith Baxter, Don Johnson star. 4 1/3 hrs. C/Rtg: NR

The Blue and the Gray (1982)

Epic Civil War miniseries chronicles the conflict that shattered a nation through the tribulations of two interlocked clans, those of Charlottesville farm wife Maggie Geyser(Colleen Dewhurst) and her sister, Gettysburg publisher’s spouse Evelyn Hale (Diane Baker). Grandiosely told with magnificent battle sequences and a stellar cast headed by Geraldine Page, Stacy Keach, Lloyd Bridges, Warren Oates, Sterling Hayden, Paul Winfield, and Gregory Peck as Abraham Lincoln. Original, complete version; 6 hrs. C/Rtg: NR