Manassas (2017)

In the 1860s, the green farmlands of Manassas, Virginia seem worlds away from the heated debates and mounting tensions surrounding the North & South. But a distance of 40 miles could not shelter this picturesque community from enduring the terrors of war ... Not once ... But twice. On the morning of July 21, 1861 scores of politicians and Washington elite gather on the hills overlooking acres of farmland to witness their Union Army claim sweet victory over the Southern Army in a one and done battle. As they picnic under the sun, sip wine and boisterously brag of superiority, the families who have made Manassas their home, peer out of curtained windows and wonder in from a morning of field work to find soldiers from both sides posturing arrogantly for battle. "Manassas" is an epic drama spanning the life and times of those who saw their crop fields and farmhouses serve as battlefields, hospitals and strategic outposts. These families, who after soldiers move on, scrub blood off their floors, plow under crops ruined by fire and struggle to rebuild shattered homes devastated by cannon only to be in the fray once again, of a war far from over. It is a story of strength and triumph capturing the spirit of the early Americans caught in the middle of a war thrust upon them merely because they are strategically placed within striking distance of the Nation's Capital.