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1. Hamilton (2020)
PG-13 | 160 min | Biography, Drama, History
The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast.
Director: Thomas Kail | Stars: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry
Votes: 114,099
2. The Patriot (2000)
R | 165 min | Action, Drama, History
Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs
Votes: 293,781 | Gross: $113.33M
3. John Adams (2008)
TV-14 | 71 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.
Stars: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, John Dossett, Stephen Dillane
Votes: 36,701
4. TURN: Washington's Spies (2014–2017)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, History, War
A Long Island farmer bands together a group of childhood friends to form an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America's fight for independence.
Stars: Jamie Bell, Heather Lind, Samuel Roukin, Daniel Henshall
Votes: 23,466
5. Wild Wild West (1999)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The two best special agents in the Wild West must save President Grant from the clutches of a diabolical, wheelchair-bound, steampunk-savvy, Confederate scientist bent on revenge for losing the Civil War.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek
Votes: 167,376 | Gross: $113.81M
6. Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Sherman, a young boy, misuses a time machine made by his scientist father Mr. Peabody and causes the world history to go haywire. It is now up to Mr. Peabody to rescue his son and the world.
Director: Rob Minkoff | Stars: Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann
Votes: 77,941 | Gross: $111.51M
7. Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
PG-13 | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
Once told they'd save the universe during a time-traveling adventure, two would-be rockers from San Dimas, California find themselves as middle-aged dads still trying to crank out a hit song and fulfill their destiny.
Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving
Votes: 53,090
8. Gods and Generals (2003)
PG-13 | 219 min | Biography, Drama, History
The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers.
Director: Ron Maxwell | Stars: Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Jeff Daniels, Donzaleigh Abernathy
Votes: 17,225 | Gross: $12.87M
9. The Last Sharknado: It's About Time (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Fin has to go back in time to rejoin his shark-battling friends to stop the first Sharknado and save humanity.
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante | Stars: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassandra Scerbo, Judah Friedlander
Votes: 5,132
10. Sons of Liberty (2015)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, History
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 United States of America. Based on true stories.
Stars: Ben Barnes, Marton Csokas, Henry Thomas, Ryan Eggold
Votes: 4,738
11. America: The Motion Picture (2021)
TV-MA | 98 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A chainsaw-wielding George Washington teams with beer-loving bro Sam Adams to take down the Brits in a tongue-in-cheek riff on the American Revolution.
Director: Matt Thompson | Stars: Channing Tatum, Jason Mantzoukas, Olivia Munn, Bobby Moynihan
Votes: 7,412
12. Liberty's Kids (2002–2003)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The American Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of an American teenaged lad, a young English lady, and a French boy, all three of whom work as reporters for Benjamin Franklin.
Stars: Walter Cronkite, Kathleen Barr, Reo Jones, Chris Lundquist
Votes: 1,493
13. Revolution (1985)
PG | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end.
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright
Votes: 7,559 | Gross: $0.36M
14. The Crossing (2000 TV Movie)
89 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the Hessian forces at Trenton.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Roger Rees, Sebastian Roché, Steven McCarthy
Votes: 2,192
15. An American Carol (2008)
PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.
Director: David Zucker | Stars: Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, Trace Adkins
Votes: 10,110 | Gross: $7.00M
16. George Washington (1984)
480 min | Biography, Drama, History
The early life and career of the American General and President through his participation in the Revolutionary War.
Stars: Barry Bostwick, Patty Duke, David Dukes, Jaclyn Smith
Votes: 527
17. The Book of Negroes (2015)
265 min | Drama, History, War
Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia, and the treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the eighteenth century.
Stars: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Lyriq Bent, Ben Chaplin, Allan Hawco
Votes: 2,268
18. Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970 TV Movie)
73 min | Comedy, Family, History
John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
Director: Stan Harris | Stars: John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny
Votes: 233
19. The Rebels (1979)
240 min | Drama, History, War
Philip Kent takes part in the American Revolution and the newly formed Congress.
Stars: Andrew Stevens, Don Johnson, William Conrad, Doug McClure
Votes: 236
20. The First American (2016)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
George Washington is central to understanding America's founding. He was the crucial figure in winning the American Revolution, in creating the Constitution, and in establishing the ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Knoblock | Stars: Newt Gingrich, Callista Gingrich, Robert Lyons, Beverley Simmons
Votes: 203
21. Free Lunch Express (2020)
TV-14 | 80 min | Biography, Comedy
From the creators who watched Airplane too many times, comes the surreal story of Bernie Sanders. This farcical tale takes us from childhood to political icon with battles against the ... See full summary »
Director: Lenny Britton | Stars: Alexander Aguila, Laura Aleman, Jessica Jade Andres, Elaine Ballace
Votes: 396
22. John Paul Jones (1959)
126 min | Action, Biography, History
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Erin O'Brien
Votes: 1,440
23. The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, History, War
Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal
Votes: 1,263
24. Lafayette (1962)
Not Rated | 158 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the American War of Independence, French officer and nobleman La Fayette comes to America's aid with men, money and weapons and becomes a Major-General under George Washington's command.
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Pascale Audret, Jack Hawkins, Michel Le Royer, Folco Lulli
Votes: 187
25. Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
Not Rated | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles, Marjorie Reynolds
Votes: 753
26. A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation (1989)
111 min | Drama, History
It showed the process it took to write the Constitution of the United States.
Director: Peter N. Johnson | Stars: Craig Wasson, Michael McGuire, Morgan White, Bruce Newbold
Votes: 228
27. Founding Fathers (2000)
TV-G | 60 min | Documentary, History
Witness the birth of the American republic.
Stars: Burt Reynolds, James Woods, Edward Herrmann, Brian Dennehy
Votes: 148
28. George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986 TV Movie)
190 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of George Washington as the first President of the United States of America and his 8 years running his country. The trials he faces dealing with mobs and riots while keeping the country together.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Barry Bostwick, Patty Duke, Jeffrey Jones, Richard Bekins
Votes: 209
29. Assassin's Creed III: Remastered (2019 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
Assassin's Creed III, remastered in HD, including all DLCs and expansions, and Assassin's Creed Liberation HD
Votes: 269
30. Sons of Liberty (1939)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Claude Rains, Gale Sondergaard, Donald Crisp, Montagu Love
Votes: 411
31. America (1924)
Passed | 141 min | Drama, History, War
The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Carol Dempster, Erville Alderson, Charles Emmett Mack
Votes: 472
32. Janice Meredith (1924)
Passed | 153 min | Drama, History, Romance
It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of... See full summary »
Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford, Macklyn Arbuckle
Votes: 721 | Gross: $0.43M
33. Valley Forge (1975 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, War
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Richard Basehart, Barry Snider, Harry Andrews, Alan Cauldwell
Votes: 86
34. Alexander Hamilton (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Biography, Drama, History
With the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, General George Washington took Colonel Hamilton with him into the newly formed government. While the main disagreements in the early days was ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Dudley Digges, June Collyer
Votes: 323 | Gross: $0.99M
35. Assassin's Creed III: The Tyranny of King Washington (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
A three-part DLC series for Assassin's Creed III (2012), exploring an alternate reality in which George Washington goes mad with unlimited power, foregoing Presidency to rule as tyrannical King.
Director: Marc-Alexis Côté | Stars: Noah Watts, Robin Atkin Downes, Danny Blanco Hall, Mark Camacho
Votes: 526
36. Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
Approved | 74 min | Fantasy, Musical
Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bill everywhere in history, but not to WWII.
Directors: Gregory Ratoff, George Seaton | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Joan Leslie, June Haver, Gene Sheldon
Votes: 301
37. When the Redskins Rode (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Western
In 1753, during the French and Indian War, Colonel George Washington and frontiersman Christopher Gist hope to persuade the Delaware tribes to join the British side but French spies aim for a contrary outcome.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Jon Hall, Mary Castle, James Seay, John Ridgely
Votes: 144
38. 1775 (1992 TV Movie)
23 min | Comedy
In 1775 Philadelphia, an innkeeper wants his daughters to marry well. There's a ball and gents are attending but he needs money to get the girls in. He asks his brother-in-law, George Washington, for some money.
Director: David Trainer | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Lesley-Anne Down, Sarah Koskoff, Danielle Harris
Votes: 52
39. The War That Made America (2006)
Documentary, History, War
This was the war between the French and Indians, and the early colonists, 1754, before the Revolution.
Stars: Larry Nehring, Charles Misulia, Michael L. Colosimo, Bryan Stefancyk
Votes: 179
40. Revelation: Dawn of Global Government (2016)
PG | 106 min | Documentary
The American Republic, Christian faith and liberty are rapidly being destroyed by a Trojan Horse of globalism. As we have slept "Change has come to America." Awakened late, we find ourselves enveloped, suffocated in a global prison planet.
Director: Chuck Untersee | Stars: Chuck Baldwin, Jerry Boykin, Mark Collins, Charlie Daniels
Votes: 79 | Gross: $0.02M
41. The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
Unrated | 81 min | Comedy, Fantasy
When hyper-efficient small-town accountant Andrew Long finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Brian Donlevy, William Holden, Ellen Drew, Montagu Love
Votes: 196
42. Mysteries of the Freemasons (2006 TV Movie)
Documentary, History
Special examines the origins of the Freemasons and their putative roots in the stonemasons of the Temple of Solomon and the Knights Templar, the impact of the Freemasons on the Age of ... See full summary »
Director: Tuggelin Yourgrau | Stars: Rich Adams, Chad O. Allen, Charlie Anderson, Jim Bachtell
Votes: 72
43. Old Glory (1939)
G | 9 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Porky balks at learning the Pledge of Allegiance until Uncle Sam appears to him in a dream and gives him a lesson in American history.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce, John Deering, John Litel
Votes: 740
44. Give Me Liberty (1936)
Approved | 22 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: John Litel, Nedda Harrigan, Carlyle Moore Jr., Robert Warwick
Votes: 261
45. Holiday Highlights (1940)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Blackout gags about the holidays. New Year's (the baby speaks to us). Valentine's Day (it's Leap Year, so the girl turns to the boy) Washington's Birthday (the cherry tree story). Arbor Day... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Gilman Rankin
Votes: 208
46. Independence (1976)
Not Rated | 30 min | Drama, Short
This short was made during the US Bicentennial celebration to give a background on the development, writing and signing of the Declaration of Independence and the men who were involved in it.
Director: John Huston | Stars: William Atherton, John Favorite, Pat Hingle, Ken Howard
Votes: 98
47. Alexander Hamilton (1924)
30 min | Drama, Short
The career of Alexander Hamilton from 1780 through 1793 is chronicled, including his constribution to the early nation as both a soldier and a statesman.
Director: Kenneth S. Webb | Stars: Allen Connor, George Nash, Mabel Taliaferro, Lyndall Olmstead
48. The Phantom President (1932)
78 min | Comedy, Musical
A presidential candidate is deemed to have a dull personality, thus a charismatic look-alike is hired as a front.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert, Jimmy Durante, George Barbier
Votes: 187
49. The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds (1918)
60 min | Drama, History
During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe. Fast-forward several years and they again find themselves on opposite ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Ashley | Stars: June Elvidge, Carlyle Blackwell, Arthur Ashley, Carl Gerard
50. We Fight to Be Free (2006)
24 min | Short, Biography, Drama
The Story of George Washington's most important military achievements and special personal moments of his life. The film sheds new light on old hero by portraying him as kind and brave man who changed the history of the world.
Director: Kees Van Oostrum | Stars: Sebastian Roché, Caroline Goodall, Stephen Lang, Peter Woodward
Votes: 84