Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT A historian reviews Jude Law’s 2003 romantic Civil War drama for accuracy. Based on a novel by Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain starred Law alongside Renée Zellweger and Nicole Kidman in an epic drama partially set during America’s bloodiest conflict.
You see them lighting the fuse and then putting sandbags up because they didn't want the explosion coming back their way. This actually happened, but one thing I really wish they could have included was that they lit the fuse and waited five, ten minutes and nothing happened, and then they had to remove the sandbags and the bravest man in the world had to go into that shaft and find out where it had broken and splice it and light that thing again and run back out, and it worked all right.
This idea of the turkey shoot - they’ve got themselves trapped in their own hole - is true, but not like you see it in the movie. First of all, the attack into the crater was part of a much larger attack with Union soldiers really exploiting some of their gains.