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Join us for a film screening followed by conversation with director Jake Boritt.

The Gettysburg Story dramatically tells the history of the greatest battle fought on American soil using stunning high definition aerial and time lapse cinematography. It is narrated by acclaimed actor Stephen Lang (Avatar, Tombstone, Gettysburg). The program begins in June, 1863 with the start of the Gettysburg campaign in Virginia, follows the route of the Confederate and Union armies as they move north along the Blue Ridge, into Maryland, across the Mason-Dixon line to meet on the rolling grounds surrounding the small Pennsylvania town. Produced with the cooperation of the 6,000 acre Gettysburg National Military Park, the battle story comes alive visually. Dynamic, evocative, breathtaking aerial imagery of legendary places of the battlefield – Little Round Top, Devils Den, The Railroad Cut, Cemetery Ridge, The Valley of Death, the fields of Pickett's Charge – visually tell the epic Gettysburg Story like no other film before. The film finishes in November on Cemetery Hill where Lincoln delivered his nation-changing Gettysburg Address.

During the sesquicentennial anniversary, the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will host a series of events, including a lecture on November 13, a reading of the original manuscript on November 19, a panel discussion, and an exhibit in the Carl A. Kroch Library.

Sponsored by Cornell University Library and Cornell Cinema.

The exhibition and associated events are funded by the generous support of the Nicholas H. Noyes Jr. Memorial Foundation and Gail’56 and Stephen Rudin.

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