"Reenactment ought to be considered a kind of improv performance, it's a play, a show with education at its heart and entertainment as one of its many consequences."
"The point isn't to go out and prove that you're the most tactical person on the field... rather... it's for every individual on the field to gain a little insight more into the feel, into the sights and the sounds, the smells, the material culture."
"When I go to a World War I reenactment, I don't want to just get hit by a paintball. The value is from running through a trench at night, flares popping off overhead, people screaming orders, and gunfire going off all around me."
"At its best, reenactment is all about public education and the public being able to see a good historically authentic performance."
"Try not to think of it as a game; it's not a sport so much as it is an improv educational performance."
"After spending 48 hours living in 1940s wartime..."
"We are going to recreate Slocum's voyage in its entirety again."
"This my friends and I almost recreated the entire Fellowship of the Ring from scratch in high school."
"Absolutely perfect, perfectly compatible with my period of reenactment clothing of the mid to late 15th century in my armor and all that kind of stuff so I'm very very happy."
"Seeing all those historical society guys in their getups was impressive but the way they spoke and acted was like stepping back into a time machine."
"It is without exaggeration the greatest reenactment that I've ever taken part in."
"A tight-knit reenactment group faces discrimination from a new coffee shop manager, leading to their united exit and the downfall of the business."
"In the meal, we reenact, employ rituals, symbols, and identify with the original event."
"It's the reenacting of the finished work of the cross brought into the now, into the present."
"Most people in armor that I saw at dukesbury didn't seem to have mail on the inside of their elbows or armpits so um uh clearly it's not considered absolutely essential for reenactment."
"Timkot day is when the reenactment of the baptism takes place."
"If any of you guys are thinking of doing reenactment fighting, then do it. Get out there, pick up a spear, pick up a shield, go in, have some fun."
"I've got real fond memories when my brother and I reenact like...yeah, so like Pearl Harbor, bro, yeah."
"Combat is the big one in reenactment, a lot of people are there just for the fighting, and they encourage you to be there for the fighting as well."
"If all you want to do is get dressed in the clothes, sit down in the sun, and relax at the weekend with some new friends, what a wonderful reason to join a reenactment society."
"...a little Hands-On history of our own with a tea party of Our Own."
"...the ghostly soldiers are said to appear so real that they're often mistaken for reenactments by unsuspecting onlookers..."
"I just don't know anybody that would take that serious to make a reenactment."
"It wasn't just a bunch of riders from the stable club; it was a bunch of what looked like cowboys on horseback, and at the bottom of the hill were several covered wagons, the type you'd see in an old western movie."
"I think we're trying to recreate the nativity scene."
"The Battle of Berlin is on, the stakes are high, and the forces are balanced enough that we decide this is one to set up on the tabletop using 15 mm Miniatures."
"The Bethlehem experience is an interactive reenactment of the night on which our Savior was born."
"To be standing there on that ground in our uniforms with our weapons was just a thrill of a lifetime."
"Spending a whole week as a reenactor minus any modern conveniences was probably the thing I treasure most about being part of the movie."
"Sometimes watching the movie Gettysburg is difficult for me because a lot of my fellow reenactors and close friends have passed away."
"It's truly about fun and living history exactly as it was lived back in those time periods."
"Interpretation is what this is all about; that's the whole point of historical reenactment."
"Jimmy's a PhD student and a Viking reenactor."
"Isn't it amazing how they all combine to make what happened thousands of years ago seem so real, so vivid, and faith-strengthening?"
"This is amazing, this is so cool, this is absolutely perfect for display or reenactment."
"We've returned from a two-month cross-country journey... and I'm finally back into my 18th century mode."
"Safety reasons do not attempt to reenact any of the events you've seen."
"The way I see it, there are three ways you can basically go around looking for a reenactment group that suits you."
"Reenactment should be accessible for all."
"Two thousand years ago, life was very different, but thanks to the team at Butser Ancient Farm, they have created a gateway into the past."
"We unconsciously draw to us what's familiar, and we're reenacting painfully familiar themes not because we're masochistic but because we are trying to heal."
"We are here to keep these stories alive; that's the goal of being a reenactor."
"I can feel myself getting excited about reenacting again and that's so cool."
"Let us reenact a scene of the Archon War."
"We're going to march in the footsteps of the 14th Brooklyn, commonly known as the 84th New York, and we're going to see this battle through their eyes."
"Olaf re-enacting the whole movie."
"It also works perfectly for historical reenactment too."
"To stand in one place and watch row after row of these soldiers marching by gives you a sense of what it might have been like to have been there."
"You can reenact a lot of good scenes from the movie with this set."
"They really captured the iconic cinematic scene of the moon landing."
"This is how they would have looked back in the day."
"The night tour is where they actually have people dressed up and they portray butlers, maids, cooks, and they recreate what a night at the Hearst Castle would have been like if you were a guest of Mr. William Randolph Hearst."
"It's just so historic to see the reenactment on the actual day."
"Connor just acts out some of the best moments in sports history."
"I deem myself a professional. Do not try to recreate or reenact anything that you see in this video."
"Every year there's a military invasion of Pickering with thousands of tourists and hundreds of re-enactors turning up to relive the sights and the sounds of the Second World War."
"I've taken a short couple of paragraphs from this book that talks about a pretty cool incident, and I've tried to recreate it, I've tried to live that reality to make that event come to life."
"It's also been documented that the severed head of Crassus was used as a prop in a Parthian adaptation of a Roman play."
"We reenact and relive our traumas when we get sucked into the trauma vortex, thus opening the possibility for emotional flooding and retraumatization."
"I would like to thank the organization, I would like to thank the reenactors, it was an amazing event."
"I saw a Civil War Reenactment, which I always thought they were kind of dorky."
"The community recreates Rockwell's iconic Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas each year."
"If you're doing late war re-enacting, it's probably more sensible to get a later war pattern."
"This will hopefully help people getting into British reenacting see the three patterns a little more readily, a little more easily."
"What do I want the opening page to be? Something about what we do, obviously as a medieval reenactment group, that'd be quite good."
"Oh wow, look at that, we just literally walked into the battle of Bosworth."
"We try to recreate the courtesy and chivalry of that piece of the Middle Ages."
"We felt like Romans on that day; we were consciously recreating the Roman Empire once more."
"History has already told us their stories but the show tells them all so well and we get to see it happened for the first time."
"I'm going to go for the scheme as she was on the 24th of May when she faced the Hood and the Prince of Wales."
"We successfully reproduced the processes of iron working which gave us a real insight into what life was all about here at Beauport Park 1900 years ago."
"Blist Hill is a reconstruction of a small Victorian industrial town where people are working and living as they did a hundred years ago."
"Great War loadouts will always be welcome to the Airsoft Top Series."
"We are trying to recreate a moment in history that is arguably the most famous moment in history."
"The mass is a reproduction, a reenactment exact and complete opposite of Calvary; it is Calgary itself in an unbloody manner."