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Allegheny Uprising and The Fighting Kentuckian, shot only a decade apart (as opposed to three decades apart, as is the case with The Big Trail and The Alamo), are often confused with each other because of Wayne's identical buckskin outfit and coonskin hat worn throughout both pictures. See also. Oliver Hardy filmography; John Wayne filmography
The Alamo is a 2004 American war historical drama about the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.The film was directed by John Lee Hancock, produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Mark Johnson, distributed by Buena Vista Pictures (through its Touchstone Pictures banner), and starring Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston, Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett, Jason Patric as Jim Bowie, and ...
Benjamin Rush Milam (October 20, 1788 – December 7, 1835) was an American colonist of Mexican Texas and a military leader and hero of the Texas Revolution.A native of what is now Kentucky, Milam fought beside American interests during the Mexican War of Independence and later joined the Texians in their own fight for independence, for which he assumed a leadership role.
From Davy Crockett's fate to the real racial mix of soldiers "there are a lot of inaccuracies in the movie," says one historian of the famed Western, released on Oct. 24, 1960.
As the 150th anniversary of the battle approached in the 1980s, several additional movies were made about the Alamo, including the made-for-television The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory, which Albert Nof regards as the most historically-accurate of all Alamo films. The movie Todish calls "the best theatrical film ever made about the Alamo" was also ...
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), naval warfare. The Red and the Black (1954, France) Napoléon (1955 film) War and Peace (1956, USA) The Pride and the Passion (1957) napoleonic war film. Sven Tuuva the Hero (1958) Finnish War 1808-1809. Austerlitz (1960), depiction of the Battle of Austerlitz.
List of Alamo defenders. Partial scan of the March 24, 1836 Telegraph and Texas Register with the first Texian list of defenders killed at the Battle of the Alamo. The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a crucial conflict of the Texas Revolution. In 1835, colonists from the United States joined with Tejanos (Mexicans born ...
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