Sherman's March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love In the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation is a 1986documentary film which starts out to tell the story of the lingering effects of General William Tecumseh Sherman's march through Georgia. During filming, however, director/writer Ross McElwee's work shifted into a more personal story about the women in his life, his nightmares about nuclear war, and his obsession with Burt Reynolds.