Ride With the Devil (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

With this new director's cut, Ang Lee reconstructs his original vision for his Civil War epic, Ride with the Devil, an intimate, harrowing look at a country torn in half, told from a daringly unorthodox perspective. Set in 1862, during the Kansas-Missouri border war, the film stars Tobey Maguire as Jake and Skeet Ulrich as his friend Jack Bull; they join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack's father is killed by marauding members of the abolitionist Jayhawkers. But Ride with the Devil is also the story of their unusual ally Holt (an astonishing Jeffrey Wright), who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave. A rumination on identity and loyalty, both political and personal, Ride with the Devil is a provocative challenge to preconceptions about America's bloodiest conflict.

Starring: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Scott Sener, Simon Baker, Tobey Maguire, Jeremy W Auman, Scott C Sener, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, Glenn Q Pierce, Kathleen Warfel, David Darlow, Zan Macleod, John Whelan, Roger Landes, Jeffrey Dover, Tyler Johnson, Michael Nash, Kelly Werts, James Caviezel, Jeffrey Wright, Margo Martindale, Tom Guiry, John Judd, Donald L Shanks, Jay Thorson, Dean Vivian, Cheryl Weaver, Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Simon Baker-Denny, Matthew Faber, Thomas Guiry, Jonathan Brandis, Celia Weston, Buck Baker, Mark Ruffalo, Amber Griffith, Stephen Mailer, Ric Averill, Zach Grenier, Donna Thomason, Tom Wilkinson, Marvin Frank Schroeder, James Urbaniak, David Rees Snell, Cassie Mae Sears, John Ales, Dave Wilson, Margo Marindale, Larry Greer, Kevin Fewell, Martin E Liebschner Jr, John Durbin, Michael Owen, Steven Price, Addison Myers, David L Asher, Jennie Nauman, Nora Denney, Harry Gibbs, Roger Denesha, T. Max Graham, Jim Shelby, Michael Linsley Rapport, Joseph Moynihan, Christine Brandt, Bill Grivna, Clayton Vest, Jacob Kozlowski, David Lee Burnos Jr, Jennifer Ackland, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Director: James Schamus, Robert F. Colesberry, Ted Hope, Walter Mirisch