The movie I watched was, “The Alamo”, that was filmed in 1960, starring John Wayne as David Crockett. In the video the Battle of the Alamo lasted for about thirteen days, that was a truthful depiction according to historians the battle did last for thirteen days. There were one hundred and eighty-five men who fought and defended the Alamo, that too was an actual depiction shown to us in the movie. In the movie it shows that General Sam Houston didn’t like Colonel William B. Travis, but trusted him with the Republic of Texas. In actual facts I didn’t find anything on the conflict. The video also showed us another conflict between characters, it showed that Colonel William B. Travis and Colonel Jim Bowie weren’t the best of friends either, but I could not find anything on this conflict on the web or in the books. The movie doesn’t agree with what Dr. Winders told us about the position of the Alamo, the movie shows us the Alamo out in a rural area, when it was actually close to the town of San Antonio right across a bridge coming from the city. The movie, “The Alamo” was filmed a few miles from the actual location of the Alamo, it was filmed in Texas. The movie shows that Jim Bowie lived in Texas, when in actual fact he came from Kentucky to help General Sam Houston, or the to help defend the Alamo. The movie also showed that David Crockett and the Tennessee Volunteers came down to Texas to hunt and get drunk, but Davy Crockett, had a girl write a letter to himself, and pretended like General Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna wrote it to him asking him to “get out of Texas they were not welcome and it is not there fight”, this just made the Tennessee Volunteers mad and made them agree to stay and fight, but in the books and on the web historians said he came down here to fight from the get go, and the Tennessee Volunteers came down here knowing what was going on and came down here to fight too.
In my opinion, I don’t think the movie, “The Alamo“, presented a balanced view of events, from what I heard from Dr. Winders on our tour at Alamo. He told us that Davy Crockett survived the battle, but was executed after he was caught by the Mexican Army (between five thousand to seven thousand troops). In the movie it shows the Mexican Army coming over the walls of the Alamo in the daylight hours, when they actually according to historians they came over the walls before daylight. So movie kind of strays off the actual facts from historians about this fateful thirteen confrontation for Texas to become a free Republic. This Battle held Santa Anna and his troops off long enough for General Sam Houston to pull his troops together and get them ready, and a few weeks later Sam Houston’s army beat the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto for our freedom from a tyrant.
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