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You'll be seeing stars and stripes as the most fascinating leaders in American history come to life in 1776, a musical about the birth of a nation! With the 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 and turn the inevitable war with England into a Declaration of Independence!

1972 · 2h 45m
Director Peter H. Hunt

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You'll be seeing stars and stripes as the most fascinating leaders in American history come to life in 1776, a musical about the birth of a nation! With the 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 and turn the inevitable war with England into a Declaration of Independence!

COMMON SENSE

Engaging historical musical has some bawdy humor, language.

TOMATOMETER
Average 7.1
Reviews 19
Fresh 13
Rotten 6

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Studio
Columbia Pictures
Released
1972
Run Time
2 hr 45 min
Rated
Unrated Rated PG for language.
Region of Origin
United States
© 1972 , renewed 2000 , 2002 Columbia Pictures Industries , Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), Danish , Finnish , German (Germany) , Norwegian , Swedish

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.