Fresh
By slyly nudging both history and the language of television, this mock documentary about an America won by the Confederacy ... manages to be both shocking and strangely banal in equal measure.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
What if the South had won the War?
2005 · 1h 29m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, War
Directed by
Kevin Willmott
Overview
Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The satire comes to feel strained and the whole premise gets awfully precious, reducing social subtleties to cinematic simplicities.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
A sometimes incisive, sometimes amateurish look at race in America, the things we do and tolerate as a nation that are really no different from an America ruled by unrepentant slave-holders.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
A piece of well-crafted righteous indignation.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Fresh
[Writer/Director] Willmott could have easily stumbled over his own cleverness but, as with the rest of the movie, his fantasia is intellectually rigorous and makes for stimulating debate.
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
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