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Revolutionary War Movies

7/4/2015

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by Stephen Milek

Happy 4th of July everyone.  This is from an old blog of mine but thought I would share again.  
This is a short list because there have only been like 6 movies have been made about the Revolutionary War and that's including a HBO miniseries and a made for TV movie from A&E. Still that only leaves 4 movies that I have seen for my list.

1.  The Patriot-Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger fight the British in this violent action movie.

2.  1776-Fun musical about the writing of the Declaration of Independence

3.  John Adams-HBO Miniseries-The life of John Adams incudes his rise to prominence in Massachusetts to his presidency and death.  Paul Giamatti gives a great performance as Adams.

4.  The Crossing-A&;E TV movie-About Washington's crossing of the Delaware River with  Jeff Daniels playing Washington.


Since there weren't many movies about the Revolutionary War I decided to do an additional list of movies that sounds like they should be about the Revolutionary War but aren't.

1.  Independence Day-Takes place on the 4th of July but instead of fighting the British we are fighting aliens.

2.  Born on the 4th of July-Sounds patriotic but a controversial film from Oliver Stone about the Vietnam War.

3.  The Birth of a Nation-Not about the Revolutionary War but about the start of the KKK.

4.  God Bless America -Not at all what it sounds like it is really about a guy that goes crazy and starts a killing people. 

5.  American Beauty - Sounds like it would be a nice tail of America but it is about the falling apart of a family.  



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