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This is a film about storytelling, about how we tell the story of our countrys past. Why do we want to believe one version and not another . Maybe because it makes us feel safe at night. There is one episode of americas history that is told very differently, depending on who you are and where you live. It is the story of our civil war and what came after. The Hot Winds Of War blew across the land. Made of it, a country divided. Friend turned into foe. Brother fought against brother. It was such ...

>> this is a film about storytelling, about how we tell the story of our countrys past. why do we want to believe one version and not another? maybe because it makes us feel safe at night. there is one episode of americas history that is told very differently, depending on who you are and where you live. it is the story of our civil war and what came after. >> the hot winds of war blew across the land. made of it, a country divided. friend turned into foe. brother fought against broth...

Storytelling, about how we tell the story of our countrys past. Why do we want to believe one version and not another . Maybe because it makes us feel safe at night. There is one episode of americas history that is told very differently, depending on who you are and where you live. It is the story of our civil war and what came after. The Hot Winds Of War blew across the land. Made of it, a country divided. Friend turned into foe. Brother fought against brother. It was such a long and drawn out ...

>> this is a film about storytelling, about how we tell the story of our countrys past. why do we want to believe one version and not another? maybe because it makes us feel safe at night. there is one episode of americas history that is told very differently, depending on who you are and where you live. it is the story of our civil war and what came after. >> the hot winds of war blow across the land. made of it, a country divided. friend turned into foe. brother fought against brothe...

this is a film about storytelling. about how we tell the story of our countrys past. why do we want to believe one version and not another? maybe because it makes us feel safe at night. there is one episode of americas history that is told very differently depending on who you are and where you live. it is the story of our civil war and what came after. ♪♪ >> the winds of war blew across the land, made of it a country divided. friend turned into foe. brother fought against brother...

It had nothing to do with political reason. because my home was being invaded. >> the confederacy lost this war big-time. no americans have ever lost a war quite like the confederacy lost this war. white southerners are going to need to process what the meaning of that whole collapse of their society really is. and their explanation of their defeat becomes a narrative. it becomes a memory. it becomes the lost cause tradition. and the lost cause tradition was this argument that the confederacy ha...

Tradition. and the lost cause tradition was this argument that the confederacy had really fought for noble aims. the war wasnt really entirely about slavery. it was about defending their homelands. their families, their women, that slavery was not the great issue, that if it had left to them, they would have handled slavery overtime, and maybe even gotten rid of it themselves, they said, which is nonsense. there were alternative textbooks eventually published in the south. and it wasnt just text...

Lost this war. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> white southerners are going to need to process what the meaning of that whole collapse of their society really is. and their explanation of their defeat becomes a narrative. it becomes a memory. it becomes the lost cause tradition. and the lost cause tradition was this argument that the confederacy had really fought for noble aims. the war wasnt really entirely about slavery. it was about defending their homelands. their families, their women, that slavery was not t...

>> white southerners are going to need to process what the meaning of that whole collapse of their society really is. and their explanation of their defeat becomes a narrative. it becomes a memory. it becomes the lost cause tradition. and the lost cause tradition was this argument that the confederacy had really fought for noble aims. the war wasnt really entirely about slavery. it was about defending their homelands. their families, their women, slavery was not the great issue. that if it had l...

"we look for bad people who help the enemy. we find them and then hand them over to the intelligence services." ukraine is already taking casualties. among the most recent, tatianas only child, alexander, who was killed on the front line. there will be many more grieving families in the weeks to come. this next phase of the war could be decisive, but it will also be bloody. jonathan beale, bbc news, kramatorsk. thousands of russian soldiers have been sent to their deaths in ukraine, and as the f...