My family also enjoyed "Gods and Generals."
We plan to see "Miracle," opening this week. It has received several excellent reviews.
We are going to see it as well, I've been surprised at all of the reviews.
I just picked up the movie Russian Ark on DVD. If you want to see a cameraman almost have a complete mental and physical breakdown, this is the movie. It's a tour of the Hermitage, and how it has changed/looked over the past 300 years or so. It's interesting/beautiful, you follow this person around and as he goes in and out of rooms, the eras change.
I won't give away what makes it amazing (I may have already though).