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I'd add the TV Movie of "April Morning" from 1988 about the April 19th 1775 "Shot heard 'round the world". It did not lack for worthy actors, having Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich & Chad Lowe.

Based on Howard Fast's novel of the same name, it did show me how gut-wrenching it was to be at Lexington and Concord to face the professional soldiers of the King. People died and there was heartbreak and this is what I remember from the movie, that ordinary men, farmers & tradesmen, gathered at that "rude bridge" and started the AMEREXIT!

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
"Concord Hymn" - Ralph Waldo Emerson - July 4, 1837

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember the irony of this movie on TV when the anti-gunners first started DEMANDING a ban on all “A-s-s-sault Rifles”, something they had said for years they would never do (”We ONLY want to control HANDGUNS! Long guns would not be affected!”).