The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek

It was the most pivotal battle of the American Civil War... and you've never even heard of it. A battle in which a misfit Union regiment of only 600 souls miraculously prevented a mercenary army fifty times its size from conquering Washington. A battle that, due to an ensuing scandal that was severely embarrassing to both the Union and the Confederacy, was subject to a deliberate cover-up. A battle whose main protagonists - an opium-addicted gay colonel, an elderly Chinese general/launderer, a nerdy escaped slave/engineering genius, and a one-armed sociopathic teenaged prostitute - were denied their rightful place in the nation's pantheon of heroes. Presented in the authoritative style of an historical documentary à la Ken Burns, The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek is a hilarious mockumentary and an outrageous social/political satire. Through a combination of "archival" materials, absurdly overwrought "period" music, interviews with a rather unhinged set of "historians", and commentary by one very snarky Narrator, the film tells the life stories of its four outsider heroes, tracing their implausible biographies until their paths converge to put them at the epicenter of a sinister plot to destroy the nation. The Battle of Pussy Willow skewers the sacred myths of American history, and - with unbridled comedic anarchy - comments on everything from politics to pop- culture, from racism, sexism, and homophobia to the pomposity of the PBS-style documentary itself.