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Gettysburg is a 1993 American epic war film about the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.Written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, [3] the film was adapted from the 1974 historical novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. [4]
Maxwell is a 2007 British television drama about the last days of media magnate Robert Maxwell, played by David Suchet, which was originally broadcast on BBC Two. [1] The drama chronicles some of the events prior to Maxwell's mysterious death and the discovery of one of his era's biggest business frauds. Some fictional elements were added.
[18] [19] During post-production, Maxwell, Warner Bros. executives, and Turner debated on whether to release the film as two parts over two years or to cut the material into a single film. After test screening in 2002, Maxwell decided to cut the theatrical release to 3 hours and 40 minutes in order to focus on Stonewall Jackson's story arc. [7]
Ronald F. Maxwell (born January 5, 1949) is an American filmmaker who is best known for writing and directing the American Civil War historical fiction films Gettysburg (1993), Gods and Generals (2003), and Copperhead (2013).
Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Haitian mother and a Puerto Rican father. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti. [11] [12] [13] Maxwell's father died in a plane crash around 1976 or 1977 when Maxwell was three years old. [14] Maxwell grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. [15]
Freak the Mighty is a young adult novel by Rodman Philbrick.Published in 1993, it was followed by the novel Max the Mighty in 1998. The primary characters are friends Maxwell Kane, a large, developmentally disabled, but kind-hearted boy, and Kevin Avery, nicknamed "Freak", who is physically disabled but very intelligent.
In 1929, in New York City, Maxwell Perkins is a successful editor at Scribner's and discoverer of great authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. He lives in a "cottage"—actually, a mansion—just outside the city with his wife and five daughters. One day, in his office, he reads the drafts of O Lost, a novel by Thomas Wolfe ...
High Ground is a 2020 Australian film directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson, based on historical events that took place in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, set just after World War I.