Roland Emmerich shows a first-hand account of a family that has to face the struggles of the revolutionary war for independence in his motion picture, The Patriot. Although the movie focuses in more on the family's struggle for survival through the war, this paper will focus more on the historical events of the picture. The movie depicted quite accurately on some levels, and more than likely, not so accurately on certain other levels in order to make the movie, a movie instead of a history lesson on dvd. The movie actually does end up being a very good movie and also a very good history lesson even though it does not try to be the latter.

The movie starts out right before the beginning of the war in Charlestown, South Carolina. A meeting was held in order to find out how the people of the town feel about the possibility of war. Throughout the meeting, loyalists, patriots, and neutral parties were all seen arguing their causes. The loyalists were, of course, arguing that the colonies have no right to self-government and they should serve the crown loyally, and anyone that does not do as the King says should be charged with treason. The patriots argued that there should n

The movie does put together a very good re-enactment of the events that occurred during the war for independence. But at the same time, in order for the movie to be any good at all, the director had to exaggerate certain parts of the movie for reasons of suspense and excitement. Roland Emmerich puts

should not be taxation without representation, but that should be no reason for war and violence to get those rights, instead, there should be pleas and negotiations with the King in order to get what they want. Soon afterwards, Charlestown is under British control. War continues to ensue, and the colonial

television screen. The movie was definitely worth renting and the extra features on the dvd are an excellent source of information about the revolutionary war.

cutting off the figurative head of the British forces and make the rest of the redcoats fall easier. Also to the colonials, attacking the officers only seemed fair since the officers are the people who would have civilians killed and the soldiers would just follow orders that they were given. Certain British officers would see the aggressions made on civilians to be brutal and agree with the Americans as it being wrong, but other officers would just

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