Not all you see is true

Rating: 6/10 (5 July 2000)

Just wanted to note that not everything you see in this film is true. The most controversial one was the rounding up of women and children and putting them death. This alone spoiled the film for me as it was not only not true it was grossly unfair to the British and how they conducted war. Does anyone in their right mind believe that the Americans would have come into WW2 to save the British if an event like that had really taken place. Not a chance.
More likely it was a crude attempt to compare the British with the Nazi's who did in a very famous incident round up women and children and burned them in a church in Ordouver France. That was the most glaring inaccuracy. The other most glaring inaccuracie was the treatment of the people who became the United Empire Loyalists and emigrated to Canada after the war. Yes there were soldiers but remember they were soldiers in the British army taking orders. They were not brutal monsters as the movie would have us believe. Nor were others who were eventually made up the United Empire Loyalists. They just supported the losing side. In fact there were well documented brutal attacks by the American patriots on the United Empire Loyalists after the war. So who were the brutes?
Most of the others were dumb like firing muskets in the rain. Sorry you can not light a musket in the rain. The movie was reasonably good but the glaring inaccuracies spoiled it. Unfortunately the vast majority of people will blithfully accept it as the truth. It appears the first casualty of a war movie is also truth. The makers of the film should be taken to task for this.