Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers are both excellent, but too much for 8th graders. Extremely violent. I read where some combat vets suffered PTSD after watching the first scene from SPR. I don’t know if I would let my 8th grader see it.
The Patriot, althugh a fine film, is not that historically accurate and tends to paint the Brits as bloothirsty patriot murderers.
My uncle had to get up and leave SPR. He said that it was almost exactly as it was...except there wasnt enough boys crying for Momma while they lay wounded.