Ironclads is a 1991 made-for-television movie produced by Ted Turner's TNT company about the events behind the creation of the CSS Virginia from the remains of the USS Merrimack and the battle between the Virginia and the USS Monitor in the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862-March 9, 1862.
Virginia Madsen
as Betty Stuart
Alex Hyde-White
as Catesby Jones
Reed Diamond
as Leslie Harmon
Philip Casnoff
as Lt. Guilford
E.G. Marshall
as Commdr. Smith
Fritz Weaver
as John Ericsson
Leon B. Stevens
as Capt. Franklin Buchanan
Michal Sinnott
as Ella Mae
Kevin O'Rourke
as Lt. Joe Smith Jr.