
Set in an contemporary alternative world where the Confederate States of America managed to win the American Civil War, a British film documentary examines the history of this nation. Beginning with its conquest of the northern states, the film covers the history of this state where racial enslavement became triumphant and the nation carried sinister designs of conquest. Interspersed throughout are various TV commercials of products of a virulent racist nature as well as publ... (Full plot summary below)
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Set in an contemporary alternative world where the Confederate States of America managed to win the American Civil War, a British film documentary examines the history of this nation. Beginning with its conquest of the northern states, the film covers the history of this state where racial enslavement became triumphant and the nation carried sinister designs of conquest. Interspersed throughout are various TV commercials of products of a virulent racist nature as well as public service announcements promoting this tyranny. Only at the end do you learn that there is less wholly imagined material in the film than you might suspect.
Leave your thoughts about C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America.
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineUnrelenting in its cleverness but repetitive in hammering home this message of shameful black oppression. |
| Los Angeles CityBeatAndy KleinThe premise and much of the execution is very clever. |
| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionSteve MurrayA mockumentary often as unnerving as it is amusing, CSA: The Confederate States of America kicks off with a simple premise: What if the South had won 'the War of Northern Aggression'? |
| E! OnlineE! StaffFunny, imaginative but ultimately not very civil. |
| L.A. WeeklyAdam NaymanC.S.A. isn't subtle, but its undisguised indignation places it in the same bold polemical tradition as Peter Watkins' incendiary "Punishment Park" (1971), that nightmarish slice of speculative sci-fi about government-sanctioned manhunts for hippies and dissidents. |
| Palo Alto WeeklyJeanne AufmuthA racial and historical satire that shocks and amuses. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonFor all its wit, the overwhelming feeling is one of sadness, as the CSA history and our actual USA history really aren't that far removed. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussIngenious and disturbing, it's not really about the past but the present -- a witty successor to 'Fahrenheit 9/11.' |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranCSA is rough around the edges, especially where the acting and some of the film's invented characters are concerned. But the way CSA works out its ideas is so provoking that its drawbacks are not difficult to ignore. |
| Kansas City StarRobert W. ButlerC.S.A. is pretty mind-boggling stuff, a home-grown no-budget film capable of amusing, angering and educating -- often all at once. |