Desc: Eighty Acres of Hell: Directed by Gary Foreman. With Thomas Y. Cartwright, William C. Davis, Joseph G. Dawson, David Dixon. Unprepared for a protracted war, the huge number of prisoners of war overwhelmed both sides ability to hold them. Coupled with the bitter animosity toward the enemy this lead to inhuman conditions in prisoner of war camps. This program tells the history of the worst of the Union prison camps, Camp Douglas, in the context of the attitudes and events outside the camp.