Movie: The Alamo (2004)

• Director: John Lee Hancock
• Release Date: 9 April 2004 (USA)
• Run Time: 137 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , History , War , Western  
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sustained intense battle sequences.

Tagline: You will never forget  

Trivia: Production wrapped $82,000 dollars under budget.
 

Goofs: Anachronisms: The defenders of the Alamo, near the start of the movie, are singing “Listen to the Mockingbird.” The Alamo siege took place in 1836 and “Listen to the Mockingbird” was written by Septimus Winner under the name of Alice Hawthrone and copyrighted in April 1855, 19 years after the siege of the Alamo.
 

“Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston’s rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna’s army which led to the indepedence of Texas. Written by Matthew Patay”