Reply #24: Spike Lee did not make the film.

[SheilaT]

He came on board very late to help get it more widely distributed. It's actually been around in a partial version for a number of years now -- I've been aware of it for at least five years, perhaps longer. Every so often it would get shown, usually through the University of Kansas, and was always widely admired by those who saw it. I think that funding to complete it was always a problem.

My husband saw it this past Saturday while I was at a Democratic Party event in Topeka, and he liked it a lot.

But yes, if the Confederacy had won, and slavery remained in this country, we would never have become the industrial powerhouse that we did become in the 20th Century. At best we would have been completely ineffectual in WWII, and at worst an ally of Hitler.

I do love good Alternate History stuff, and as someone else has pointed out, Harry Turtledove has written a lot of it.