A running list of nice period entertainment of all quality levels to keep you entertained during COVID 19
The Patriot
The Last of the Mohicans
Turn Washington Spies
Rob Roy
John Adams
Outlander
Black Sails
Nouvelle France (Quebecois Movie)
North West passage
The Broken Chain
Benedict Arnold
The War that Made America
Liberty (PBS)
Barry Lyndon
Rebels and Redcoats, 4 part special produced by the BBC.
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“Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.”
For me personally, this movie is a classic. I’ve heard there are some discrepancies in terms of historical accuracy, but we all live with those when it comes to Hollywood.
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe, and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
“Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.” IMDB
“Aim Small Miss Small”, I mean who can beat that as an instructional phrase!
While famously not super accurate, this is still a fun ride.
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team
Based on the story of Hugh Glass, with some Hollywood alterations, this almost 3 hour epic is a wild ride for any fan of the frontier.
Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War, and becomes a patriot fighting to free the colonies from England. Along the way he learns about life and about himself.
The success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet.
During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.
Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
Seems as though every single thing on God’s green earth possesses a subtle, inescapable, somewhat droll sense of humor. Even the basic, rudimentary forces of nature herself have a way of laughing/poking fun at you when you least imagine or expect it... And if a lad (or in this case, several lads) be smart, they’ll learn to laugh right along with Ma Nature and/or everybody else.
Many times (I should imagine), you’ve seen me mention the amazing, history rich, Falls of the Cumberland in some article or another. At nearly seventy feet high and more than two hundred feet in width – the second largest, single drop waterfalls east of the Mississippi
