We're going to have a mini film festival this weekend to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Plains of Abraham battle. This film (which features sequences from the film below) by Jacques Godbout is described as
Two well-known Quebec artists, a filmmaker and a playwright, look at various aspects of the story of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Whose version should prevail? Is history best served by documentary or fiction?
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
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John Paul Jones 1959 | Classic War Film
Boston Garrison are featuring vintage Revwar movies. This is today's. It's in colour. John Paul Jones (film) - Wikipedia
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Our colonial Marine unit gets some last minute instruction before going to fight the British. Pinterest for more.
Dear Sir,
ReplyDeleteHow odd that these Quebecois chaps seem to forget that after 1763 they were the most liberated and protected French in the world? No more feudalism! No more enforced Catholicism ! Mon dieu eh ?
cordially,
David Corbett