In recent years, hundreds of Confederate monuments and memorials have been taken down throughout the United States, largely in response to protests against the Civil War’s bitter legacy of slavery and racism. But who knew that one of the nation’s most prominent Confederate monuments was created by an internationally famous Jewish sculptor who had fought for the Confederacy as a young soldier?

From the award-winning director of 50 Children and The Levys of Monticello, Steven Pressman’s timely and provocative new documentary film tells the unknown story of artist Moses Ezekiel while also focusing on the current fate of Civil War monuments devoted to the dangerous “Lost Cause” myth of the Confederacy.

Directed by Steven Pressman
Documentary, History
56 Minutes
USA, 2024