BAD BLOOD: THE BORDER WAR THAT TRIGGERED THE CIVIL WAR
(90 minutes)
tells the story of the border skirmishes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions on either side of the Missouri and Kansas border between 1854 and 1860. In the years leading up to the Civil War, a bloody conflict between Missourian slave-holders and Kansan abolitionists focused the nation's eyes on the Missouri-Kansas border, where history was unfolding on the Midwestern plains. This history is told through "interviews" with slave owners, abolitionists, politicians, settlers and border ruffians along with reenactments of key events.

Flags: frequent images of dead bodies, several cartoons of scalping.