Topic: American Revolutionary War

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Paul Giamatti · Laura Linney · Sarah Polley · David Morse

Plot Based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, 'John Adams' taps into the uncertainty and intensity surrounding the birth of the American republic and its first 50 years. With the fervent...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Paulette Goddard · Howard Da Silva · Boris Karloff

Plot It's 1763 and two men taking the same ship back to Virginia from London bid for the contract of a woman who was given a choice between execution in England...

Direction John Ford

Cast Claudette Colbert · Henry Fonda · Edna May Oliver · John Carradine

Plot In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. The area is remote and a distance from the fort but they...

Direction Roland Emmerich

Cast Mel Gibson · Heath Ledger · Joely Richardson · Jason Isaacs

Plot Year 1776, in South Caroline. A former war hero, Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) has renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. As time passes on his sprawling plantation,...

Direction Guy Hamilton · Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Burt Lancaster · Kirk Douglas · Laurence Olivier · Janette Scott

Plot The black sheep of a family (Dick Dudgeon) and the local minister (Anthony Anderson) discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.

Direction Kari Skogland

Cast Dean Norris · Marton Csokas · Henry Thomas · Ben Barnes

Plot TV Miniseries (2015). 3 Episodes. The story of a group of very different men fighting in the American Colonies for freedom, and how they will shape the future for the...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Neil Hamilton · Erville Alderson · Carol Dempster · Charles Emmett Mack

Plot The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.

Direction Peter H. Hunt

Cast William Daniels · Howard Da Silva · Ken Howard · Donald Madden

Plot 1776 is an acclaimed film version of Peter Stone's 1969 Tony Award for Best Musical. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin...

Direction Hugh Hudson

Cast Al Pacino · Dexter Fletcher · Nastassja Kinski · Donald Sutherland

Plot 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. Tom attempts...

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Cary Grant · Martha Scott · Cedric Hardwicke · Alan Marshal

Plot Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was no exception, despite the presence of Cary Grant in the...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Robert Stack · Marisa Pavan · Charles Coburn · Bette Davis

Plot The sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While originally a loyal soldier of the King's army, Jones in time becomes a...

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Hal Stalmaster · Luana Patten · Jeff York · Sebastian Cabot

Plot In colonial Boston, a young silversmith's apprentice injures his hand, and finds himself befriended by the Sons of Liberty and caught up in events of the American Revolution.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Owen Moore · Linda Arvidson · Kate Bruce · William J. Butler

Plot During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Cornel Wilde · Michael Wilding · George Sanders · Anne Francis

Plot In 1780, the British are gaining the upper hand in the American war of independence. The colonists' strongest defense is the fort at West Point, which is under command of...

Direction Buzz Kulik

Cast Barry Bostwick · Jaclyn Smith · Lloyd Bridges · Patty Duke

Plot The early life and career of the American General and President through his participation in the Revolutionary War.

Direction Lamont Johnson

Cast Eric Schweig · Wes Studi · Buffy Sainte-Marie · Pierce Brosnan

Plot The story of two Iroquis brothers caught in the midst of the Revolutionary War.

Direction Jean Dréville

Cast Pascale Audret · Jack Hawkins · Michel Le Royer · Folco Lulli

Plot At 13 years old, Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier inherited from his parents a long name, a fortune bigger then that, and the title of Marquis de La Fayette....

Direction Kevin Hershberger

Cast John Beach · Lars D.H. Hedbor · John Koopman · Jody Matzer

Plot This compelling new series chronicles the rise of the rebellion, failures and setbacks of the colonial mission, and the ultimate comeback that resulted in the birth of a nation.

Direction Nadia Tass

Cast Shailene Woodley · Kevin Zegers · David Gardner · John Schneider

Plot An American Girl Adventure is the second in the series of An American Girl films. It is a television film that is based on the American Girl children's books. Ten-year-old...

Direction Ronald F. Maxwell

Cast Bill Campbell · Angus MacFadyen · Augustus Prew · Lucy Boynton

Plot An Upstate New York family is torn apart during the American Civil War.