Dull and uninteresting from start to finish, and overly patriotic.
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Every American should watch this once a year.
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for Ages 8 and Up
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About 1776
Parents need to know that this musical history lesson, while rated G, still brings up slavery and shows the founding fathers as inspirational but still flawed individuals.
Read our full review by Nell Minow
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about what they learned about our nation's history and the extraordinary people who shaped it. What characteristics do they find admirable? Older kids and parents can discuss slavery and how it shaped American history, eventually bitterly dividing the country.
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- I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
- I rate this title off for age 17 and give it
Twice in 36 years
Justed watched the film for a second time recently. Saw it the first time in a theater in 1972 with my 2nd grade class. I watched it again to see if it was as cheesy and the language as gratuitous as I had remembered. It was!! You know, don't watch this crap with your kids. I am far from prudish, but, I still remember (36 years later) only remembering the foulness and trivialization of men, who in reality, risked their lives for principles that ultimately made this writer, and reader I might add, FREE. Watch HBO's mini-series "John Adams" with your kids if you want to see this subject matter done well.
- I rate this title on for age 13 and give it
Excellent for teens
- I rate this title off for age 2 and give it
- I rate this title on for age 8 and give it
Education and fun also
Excellant film of the Continental congress and the fight to get the independence approved and the Declaration of independence passed. A very accurate reproduction of this time in our history and made fun with the music. Fifth graders and above will find it helps with their American history by giving them some in site to the founding fathers. And be entertained at the same time.
- I rate this title on for age 11 and give it
- I rate this title on for age 13 and give it
Patriotic!
Very stirring and patriotic. Too much langauge from Ben Franklin, though, to make this for little kids.
- I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
Great Movie, But...
First of all, I LOVE this movie. It's great fun, great songs, and it covers a lot of the history very accurately. But when I sat down to watch it with my kids, after having not seen it in years, I was surprised that I didn't remember how much language there is in it. By today's standards it's pretty mild, but there's an awful lot of using the Lord's name in vain, if that bothers you. I don't want my children to start saying things like, "what in the name of God?!", or "for God's sake!" But if that doesn't bother you, enjoy a great, fun, entertaining, educational movie
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