Review of C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005) by Taylor L — 24 Jun 2007

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...

A very topical satire of what 'could have been'. now living in the U.K. a lot of this went over my head, but I did get the jist of the docudrama and found a lot of it very amusing, and a lot of it leaving me very gobsmacked. there must be some people out there who agree with the fiction of what was shown on the screen.

I for one am glad of the world we live in now, and love the fact that, whatever colour or culture we are, we are all as one.

This would make a great companion piece to whit mans burden.