Movie: 1776

With Boston Harbor still stained from over-taxed British tea, a revolution is brewing in the colonies. And now England has thousands of troops headed for America's shores to squelch her subjects' freedom-loving spirit. It's up to John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to convince a stubborn congress of British colonists to unite as American patriots turn the inevitable war with England into a Declaration of Independence. (Based on the play “1776.” Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.) Howard Da Silva, William Daniels, Blythe Danner. G, 142 mins.