Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston's rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna's army which led to the indepedence of Texas.
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| General |
- Contains some scenes that may be too intense for younger viewers (Crockett tells a graphic story about a battle with Indians where many of them were burned alive in a cabin and that the grease from their burning bodies actually cooked potatoes below them (and that he and the other men ate those potatoes -- from hunger -)
- Contains some frightening scenes that may be too intense for younger viewers (Many fight scenes,a nd scenes of dead bodies.)
- Contains some adult themes (War and death.)
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| Language |
- D-word (4)
- H-word (4)
- A-word (1)
- B-word (3 (S.O.B,))
- some imitative phrases (Dying for nothing means sh*t to me," "To hell with Tennessee," "Idiots," "Two-bit dandy," "Jackass," "What is it about that damn place?" "Damn shame," "You can all go to hell," "Smell like a skunk's ass," "Let's give 'em hell," "Ain)
- non-religious references to Deity (2 "God", 2 "Oh God", 1 "Swear to God")
- S-word (3)
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| Sex/Non-Graphic Nudity |
- some sexual innuendo (A person asks if it's true that men and women bathe together in public in Mexico (Houston responds that cleanliness is next to Godliness). Travis admits that he doesn't drink, but does gamble and visit whores.)
- some implied sexual content (We see a young woman on Santa Anna's bed, showing some cleavage. He then enters the room and closes the door (implying sex).)
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| Violence |
- some war violence (We see many dead bodies most without blood, However, we see some soldiers throughout the movie with blood on their faces, We also see a bullet wound in a solders head with blood behind, a bloody shirt on a dead soldeir, and also a underwater shot of a dea)
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| Drugs/Alcohol |
- Smoking (Houston and other characters smoke cigars.)
- Drinking (Multiple characters throughout the movie drink. Many are drunk.)
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