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Pharaoh's Army (1995)
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First-time writer-director Robby Henson probably grew tired of being compared to John Sayles when Pharaoh's Army was given a limited release in 1995, but the comparisons were flattering, and this independent gem deserves any praise it can muster. Like Sayles's Matewan, it illuminates a small incident from rural America--in this case, an intimate episode of the Civil War in 1862 Kentucky--and in doing so adds richly shaded brush strokes of humanity to the grander canvas of history. Based on an actual incident as told to historian and folklorist Harry Caudill, the drama focuses on a widowed Kentucky farmwife who must protect...
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