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the first when I was about 15 years old. Then many times when my wife and I began going to WIlliamsburg together. She still laughs that I could not go to sleep at night unless I left out TV on the Channel that ran this movie over and over. I then bought the movie for myself, and watched it on occation. I now have a copy of the remastered DVD, and watch it with my students (I teach 6th grade history, from Beginnings to 1877, including the American Revolution). I have found this to be as good as any other movie I have ever found for showing the basics for the information from the late 1760's to the beginning of the revolution, especially for my students here in Virginia, where we here many of the names in movie growing up. The good thing is, my students really like the movie, and get a lot out of it.

I grew up in Williamsburg and must have seen the film a 1,000 times.
My friends and I would go into the theater on the way to the Motor House Pool and watch the movie.
We could recite it line for line. In fact, being the obnoxious kids we were, we often did either with the characters or just before.
It's a great film and precious part of my childhood memories.

My siblings and I were taken by our grandparents on a week long Williamsburg vacation every year from the time I was 7 (1962) until 17 or 18 years of age. The first thing we did each time was view this movie and then again several other times during the week. Maybe after dinner or maybe on a hot summer afternoon because it was cool in the theater and Pop could catch a short snooze. Michael has me beat by a mile, I'm thinking I've watched it close to a hundred times but we too could also recite many lines from various scenes. I think this movie was a driving force in creating my life-long love of American history and an appetite to learn as much as I could about the spark and drive that created the American form of government and our way of life. I return to Williamsburg almost every year and still find this movie to be intriguing and a moving experience if you let yourself feel the excitement of the 18th century. I hope its played for another 58 years, every American child should watch this along with a couple of week course on the concept of the American founder's ideas. Our country would be a better place for it. It doesn't need to be redone, its presented in a professional manner portraying the style and grace of a time long passed.