Superb drama about the fight for Scotland's national independence

Rating: 10/10 (7 June 2013)

This powerful 1995 film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won an incredible 5 Oscars. It is wholly detested by a great many little Britons who much preferred it when Wallace's patriotic actions were not known to a massive world wide audience! Endless dramas about their pretender Elizabeth I of England are much preferred by 'British' filmmakers. Bruce and Wallace were largely ignored by them until Mel Gibson and Randall Wallace made this cracker.
The huge monument to William Wallace in Stirling shows just how much his memory means to all Scots.
Despite some historical inaccuracies (and although there are a few glaring ones the film definitely gets his horrific martyr's death right) this film definitely did catch the spirit of the fight for Scotland's freedom and independence.
This fight will hopefully end in final victory next year (2014) when Scots will vote on the future of the British union for the first time in 300 years in the Scottish independence referendum which is being organised by our elected SNP Government.