The latter two depict violence since the 13th century was not a placid time. But they are about freedom, about man's cry to be free and his willingness to die for freedom. Which is, I might add, the same rostrum from which sprung this free and loving land. For those tough, hard movies at your local theater you have alternatives. Don't go, don't patronize, keep your children away.
Television today is far less violent than it was a decade ago.
That is also a solid fact. Of the top twenty most-watched TV shows, violence is rare. NYPD BLUE often criticized for violence by folks who never watch it is, in my judgment, the finest example of creative craftsmanship on television. It's about character and relationships, and the dangerous daily collision of good and evil, wherein the cops triumph over the criminals. Not too shabby a lesson to learn.