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USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy. [a] Monitor played a central role in the Battle of Hampton Roads on 9 March under the command of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the scuttled steam ...
A civil war has engulfed the United States between the authoritarian federal government, led by a third-term president, and secessionist movements. Despite the president claiming victory is imminent, it is widely expected that Washington, D.C. will soon be reached on the Fourth of July by the "Western Forces" (WF) led by Texas and California, while forces of the southeast "Florida Alliance ...
Ironclads is a 1991 made-for-television movie produced by Ted Turner's TNT company about the events behind the creation of CSS Virginia from the remains of USS Merrimack and the battle between Virginia and USS Monitor in the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862 – March 9, 1862.
Hearts in Bondage is a 1936 American black-and-white war drama film directed by Lew Ayres for Republic Pictures.Set during the American Civil War, the film depicts the Union Navy's deliberate sinking of USS Merrimack, the Confederate States Navy's salvage and refitting of the ship as the ironclad CSS Virginia, the Union Navy's development of the ironclad USS Monitor to counter Virginia, and ...
Kirsten Dunst's new film "Civil War" is getting mixed reviews online. Shortly after the film's release on Friday, April 12, fans took to social media to share their thoughts about the war flick ...
The Monitor (original title: Babycall; titled The Monitor under US release) is a 2011 Norwegian thriller film written and directed by Pål Sletaune and starring Noomi Rapace. [1] The original title, Babycall , is the Norwegian / Swedish term for a baby monitor ; the film maintained this title upon release in Europe and Australia.
2/5 The director of ‘Ex Machina’ and ‘Men’ has made an utterly convincing war film about a war that’s yet to break out – but it collapses into thematic uncertainty
Remaining off South Carolina and Georgia during much of 1864 and into 1865, the monitor — or her boat crews — took part in a reconnaissance of the Wilmington River, Georgia, in January 1864 and helped capture or destroy enemy sailing vessels in February and November of that year.