Question: What war was the movie the patriot based on?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: What war was the 2000 movie the patriot based on?
What war was the book based on that the 1998 movie the patriot was based on?
answer: American Revolutionary War
American War of Independence
Cold War
Natural Questions answer: the American Revolutionary War (from the Wikipedia article "The Patriot (2000 film)")