‘Gettysburg’

When this uneven 1993 release, ironically originally planned as a TV miniseries, is at its best, director Robert Maxwell makes us forget the fakery involved and realize the enormity of this chapter in America. With the action confined to the three climactic days in the summer of 1863, when 150,000 Union and Confederate soldiers squared off in the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, the film emerges as neither a work of great feeling or depth. But it has integrity. Jeff Daniels as the North’s Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the late Richard Jordan as the South’s Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead manage to inject some real feeling into the film’s historical posturing. With a large impressive cast, including Tom Berenger and Stephen Lang, from left (TNT Part 1: Sunday at 5 and 8 p.m., Thursday at 5 p.m.; Part 2: Monday at 5 and 8 p.m.).