"Using contemporary on-location footage, re-enactors, photographic and portrait stills this PBS production gives the viewer a glimpse of Robert E. Lee the man. The visual, which is given context by a narrator, character voices, and excellent commentary by a number of historians among whom are James Robertson and James McPherson, is flawless. Their commentary ranges from sympathetic to critical/politically correct. What we see is that Lee was very much a man of his era and place in society with all the attendant virtues and vices. This excellent look at the man Robert Edward Lee is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for high school and lower division undergraduates. Public libraries with active Civil War collections should find this gets heavy usage."