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John Brown

John Brown. Meteor of the Civil War. John Brown - Meteor of the War Video Sources. Documentary Images John Brown’s War In Kansas At Harper’s Ferry John Brown’s Trial. Documentary Images of John Brown. Ken Burns’s Civil War series, produced for PBS in 1990.

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John Brown

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  1. John Brown Meteor of the Civil War

  2. John Brown - Meteor of the WarVideo Sources • Documentary Images • John Brown’s War • In Kansas • At Harper’s Ferry • John Brown’s Trial

  3. Documentary Images of John Brown • Ken Burns’s Civil War series, produced for PBS in 1990. Click here for further info on this series.

  4. Dramatizations of John Brown’s War • In Kansas • Santa Fe Trail • Seven Angry Men • Skin Game • At Harper’s Ferry • North and South • Santa Fe Trail • Seven Angry Men

  5. Santa Fe Trail (1940) • Here Brown, played by Raymond Massey, is depicted as a religious fanatic. Click here for further info on this film.

  6. Seven Angry Men (1955) • Raymond Massey again plays Brown, here murdering 5 pro-slavery men in retaliation for the deaths of 5 anti-slavery men in Lawrence, Kansas. Click on box to see video clip! Click here for further info on this film.

  7. Skin Game (1971) • Although a comedy starring James Garner and Louis Gossett, Jr., this film features a wrathful John Brown who seems to ride right out of the Old Testament. Click here for more info on this film.

  8. North and South (1985) • Yes, that’s Johnny Cash as “Captain Smith” (Brown) on the railroad platform on the outskirts of Harper’s Ferry. Click here for further info on this film.

  9. Santa Fe Trail (1940) • In this film, it takes a battle as big as any from the Civil War to remove Brown and his handful of followers from the engine house at Harper’s Ferry! Click here for further info on this film.

  10. Seven Angry Men (1955) • Here’s is a much more realistic recreation of the fight at the Ferry. Click on black box to see clip! Click here for further info on this film.

  11. Dramatizations of John Brown’s Trial • Seven Angry Men • The Blue and the Gray • Prince of Players • Santa Fe Trail

  12. Seven Angry Men (1955) • Brown rejects an insanity defense in this affecting depiction of the trial. Click here for further info on this film.

  13. The Blue and the Gray (1982) • This colorless John Brown appears in a network miniseries about the war (definitely from the heaving cleavage school of intersectional hostility!) Click here for further info on this film.

  14. Prince of Players (1955) • John Wilkes Booth (John Derrick) is upstaged in this film by his more talented brother Ned (Richard Burton), here playing Hamlet to John Wilkes’s Brutus. This film gets eight or nine stars, if not the perfect 10 given Derrick’s real life wife Bo! Click here for further info on this film.

  15. Santa Fe Trail (1940) • This film can’t decide if Brown was a madman or a martyr. The words spoken from the gallows here were from his mind if not his mouth. Click on box to hear Brown’s words! Click here for further info on this film.

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