Field of Lost Shoes

Product Description

Based on a true story of the American Civil War, culminating at the Battle of New Market in May 1864, a group of teenage cadets, sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute, must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.

• Filmed at actual battle sites using large casts of Civil War reenactors for vivid accuracy
• Based on the true story of the only time in American history in which an entire student body was sent into pitched battle and won
• Stars David Arquette, Keith David, Lauren Holly, Jason Isaacs, and Tom Skerritt

Review

An impressively rendered if decidedly old-fashioned retelling of the American Civil War's one-day Battle of New Market. --Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times