The Deserter (2003)

1776년, 미국 사우스 캐롤라이나. 오랬동안 지속되었던 영국과 프랑스의 식민지 쟁탈전쟁동안 '늪속의 여우'라고 불리우며 프랑스군이나 인디언들을 공포로 몰아넣었던 전설적인 전쟁영웅 벤자민 마틴은 이제 피로 얼룩진 자신의 과거를 뒤로하고 가족의 평화만을 위해 살기로 다짐한다. 사랑스러운 아내가 산고로 죽고 일곱명의 아이들을 키우는데 전부를 투자하며 보낸 시간도 잠시. 벤자민처럼 조국을 위해 몸을 바쳤던 식민지 개척자들이 영국 정부의 폭압에 맞서 독립전쟁을 시작하고, 북부에서 시작한 독립혁명의 불길은 남쪽으로 내려온다. 찰스턴 집회에서 식민지 개척자들은 전쟁영웅인 벤자민에게 전쟁에 참여할 것을 요구하지만 이미 자신의 아이들에게 모든 열정을 바치기로 마음먹은 벤자민은 "나는 일곱명의 아이들이 있고 내 아내는 죽었소. 내가 전쟁에 나가면 누가 이 아이들을 돌보죠?"라며 이를 거절한다. 그 와중에 벤자민의 큰 아들로서 이상주의적 독립지지자인 가브리엘이 아버지에 대한 열등감과 젊은 혈기로 독립전쟁에 참전한 후 부상을 입고 집으로 피신하는데, 악명높은 영국군의 윌리엄 태빙턴 대령의 군대가 집을 습격하여 벤자민의 둘째아들을 죽이고 가브리엘을 납치한다. 이에 벤자민은 결국 자신의 가족을 보호하기 위해서는 미국의 독립과 자유를 위해 싸우는 길 밖에 없음을 깨닫고, 혁명군을 위해 총을 잡는다.

1776년 미국, 훗날 미국 건국의 주역이 되는 알렉산더 해밀턴은 혁명 전야의 뉴욕에 도착하고, 그곳에서 처음으로 애런 버를 만난다. 해밀턴은 버가 자신과 마찬가지로 부모를 어린 나이에 잃었고 대학을 2년만에 졸업한 엄청난 능력의 소유자 임을 알고 유대감을 느낀다. 한편 버의 친구들인 존 로렌스, 허큘리스 멀리건, 그리고 라파예트 후작은 해밀턴의 열정과 추진력에 이끌리고, 혁명을 위해 뜻을 같이 할 것을 다짐한다. 곧이어 영국 국왕 조지 3세가 군대를 파병하며 본격적인 전쟁이 시작되고, 미국군 총사령관 조지 워싱턴은 병사의 사기가 떨어질대로 떨어지고 무기와 전략 모든 면에서 밀리는 상황에 참모가 필요함을 느낀다. 이때 버가 나서 오른팔이 되기를 청하지만, 워싱턴은 그 대신 해밀턴을 택하는데...

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.

젊은 농부 길버트 마틴과 부유한 집안에서 자란 아름다운 여인 라나는 결혼을 하고 부부는 뉴욕주 ‘모호크 계곡’의 새로운 농장을 마련해 산다. 라나는 거친 농장 생활에 힘들어하지만, 점차 익숙해진다. 행복도 잠시 미국독립전쟁이 터지고, 영국인들에게 매수당한 인디안 ‘모호크족’이 그들의 마을로 쳐들어온다. 길버트와 라나는 농장을 잃고, 설상가장으로 길버트는 전쟁에 참전하게 되는데...

Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

It is 1775. Henry Felder, a Swiss-German colonist, lives with his family in the British colony of South Carolina. After many years of struggling with corrupt British rulers, Felder is urged by the new patriot governor to write Articles of Separation from the English King. Felder's old Indian fighting comrade forms a Tory militia to assist the Crown as the fight heats up.

This live TV adaptation of the Broadway musical "Dearest Enemy" from 1925 is based on an American Revolutionary War incident in September 1776 when Mary Lindley Murray, under orders from General George Washington, detained General William Howe and his British troops by serving them cake, wine and conversation in her Kips Bay, Manhattan home long enough for some 4,000 American soldiers, fleeing their loss in the Battle of Brooklyn, to reassemble in Washington Heights and join reinforcements to make a successful counterattack.

Pioneers and a family man leave Virginia for Kentucky during the Revolutionary War.

The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss or Friedrich Trumpf, Donald Trump's grandfather. During the 19th century, thirty million people — Germans, Irish, Scots, Russians, Hungarians, Italians and many others — left the old continent, fleeing poverty, racism or political repression, hoping to make a fortune and realize the American dream.

This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)

Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.

This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

Two British redcoats contemplate their place in the American Revolutionary War and the world at large.

Ashin Yevata, a humble monk from Burma (Myanmar), helped lead the massive protests that spread throughout the country calling for change. Burma is one of the poorest countries in the world, strangled by its own despotic government. Forced labor, torture and systematic genocide are practiced by the ruthless Junta. Ashin was able to escape to the Burma-Thai border, where thousands of Burmese refugees live in fear of deportation and at the will of a corrupt police. He gathered footage from what he and his friends had as well as what he could find on the news.

The life and struggles of Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph Maria of Habsburg-Lorraine (1832-1867), emperor of the Second Mexican Empire as Maximilian I of Mexico from 1864 to 1867 (under the wing of Emperor Napoleon III and the French Empire), his tragic confrontation with Mexican leader Benito Juárez, the defeat of the will and the end of a dream.

An Important and relevant portrait of America's early years! Embark on an exciting, historical journey through the battles and victories surrounding America's pursuit for freedom. This poignant documentary series is comprehensively presented through narration, photographs and paintings to create a visual history of America's founding ideals of liberty and freedom. This ten-part documentary series examines the people and events that led up to our nation's battle for independence against the world's largest military power during the Revolutionary War through the presidencies of freedom fighters Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln who were forever dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

A British Revolutionary War drummer accidentally deserts from his regiment and is hunted down for execution.

한때 소설가를 꿈꾸던 폴 켐프는 현재 카리브해 연안의 지역 신문기자로 럼주나 마시고, 별자리 점 기사를 쓰는 무위도식의 날들을 보내고 있다. 어느 날 부동산 재벌 샌더슨과 그의 연인 셔넬이 거액을 제시하며 불법 리조트를 위한 기사를 청탁해오고. 술김에 시작한 폴의 기자생활이 봉착한 최대 난관! 평생 술값에 양심을 팔 것인가, 아니면 일생 최대의 특종을 잡을 것인가!

It was a normal night in Las Vegas, Nevada, all the lights were flashing brightly, until a man with one hand, one eye, and one leg walks into a pawn shop with a statue of a hideous looking Leprechaun. The owner claims it's a good luck charm. The statue also wore a medallion around it's neck. The careless pawn shop owner took off the medallion setting the Leprechaun free...