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Jul 1, 2024 · Whether you're looking for a good movie to celebrate the Fourth of July or simply to learn about US history, this list of the best American Revolution movies is the definitive guide for history enthusiasts and cinema buffs alike.
- Harper Brooks
- They Live
- Red Dawn
- Bananas
- V For Vendetta
- The Patriot
- The Matrix
- Che
- Battleship Potemkin
- Reds
- Les Miserables
In most movies where the world is overrun by aliens or some outside malevolent force, there is usually an element of revolt in the narrative. Independence Day, for example, sees our heroes rise against the invading forces in a grand militaristic bid to take back their planet. The thing about those movies, though, is that their views are always a bi...
Before America became infatuated with the idea of a world where zombies rule, most people in the United States were obsessed with the concept of Russia taking over. Though some simply felt that the war would consist of a series of nuclear missiles being launched from across the globe, others were prepared for the kind of traditional ground invasion...
There are many, many different kinds of rebellion films out there but, for the most part, they tend to be pretty serious pieces of work. That makes sense considering that rebellions tend to be pretty serious by their very nature most of the time. But you know, even in the most serious of circumstances, you have to be able to find some laughter. Lif...
Here’s the thing about V for Vendetta: It’s maybe a little too effective in its portrayal of rebellion. The character of V is a larger than life representation of the human spirit who is not only the one man in an oppressed world willing to rise up and perform direct actions against the totalitarian government that rules the day, but he’s also a co...
It’s easy to pick apart The Patriot from a filmmaking standpoint. Its heroes are almost entirely pure (the writers go out of their way to even clarify that the family slaves are, in fact, paid laborers), the villains are the kind of evil usually reserved for cartoons, its historical accuracy is laughable at best, and the film’s writing is about as ...
It’s odd that The Matrix is never really talked about as a revolutionist film. While later movies in the trilogy (you know, the ones that you try to forget about) directly tapped into the revolutionist themes when it came to portraying the battle of Zion, the original Matrixrarely directly presents itself as the story of a small band of humans tryi...
Steven Soderbergh’s two-part epic about the life of Cuban revolutionist Che Guevara was always destined to be a somewhat controversial film. After all, anytime you make a revolutionist movie about the complex life and times of a man whose very visage has become symbolic of the act of revolution itself, you’re going to have some detractors ready to ...
If you have trouble watching films made around the dawn of cinema, we can’t say that we blame you. Though we're personally a fan of these early works, there is no denying that the films of the ’20s can be incredibly rough pieces of entertainment with merits that are hidden under a layer of technical shortcomings and that era’s fondness for elaborat...
When American journalist John Reed published his book Ten Days That Shook The World in 1919, it was something of a controversial piece of work. Reed had become so lost in the plight of the Russian revolutionist of the October Revolution that he was no longer able to remain a conscientious objector and instead found himself sympathizing deeply with ...
Les Miserables has been successful as a stage play, television series, Broadway musical and a film adaptation of that musical. In fact, the only time Les Mis wasn’t considered an overwhelming success is when it first debuted as a novel. At that time, the book was met with many critics who file that author Victor Hugo’s winding narrative was too con...
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Movie 126 minutes Adventure, Drama, History, War. Revolution (1985) New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy.
Dec 25, 1985 · ''Revolution,'' which opens today at the National and other theaters, plays with all of the coherence of a movie that's been hurriedly cut from four hours to approximately two.
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- John Adams – 2008. Paul Giamatti. Based on David McCullough’s biography, this film (miniseries) puts great emphasis on getting the feel and the details to a very high level of excellence.
- April Morning – 1988. Tommy Lee Jones, Chad Lowe. This film was taken from the Howard Fast novel of the same name. The action takes place on April 18-19, 1775 in Lexington, Massachusetts; the afternoon before the battle of Lexington through the evening of the day of battle.
- Mary Silliman’s War – 1994. This film is based on the true story of Mary Silliman and her husband, General Gold Selleck Silliman of Fairfield, Connecticut as told in the biography, The Way of Duty, A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel.
- Drums Along the Mohawk – 1939. Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert. Director: John Ford. Based on the novel by Walter D. Edmonds. This visually appealing film is set in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York.
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Below is an incomplete list of films which include events of the American Revolution. This list does not include documentaries or short films.
