Change Your Image
dano-82749
IMDb member since December 2015
Reviews
The Declaration of Independence (1938)
Fun, but not history...
25 December 2015 - 5 out of 5 users found this review helpful.
Fun and entertaining to watch, but please don't learn your history from this short film. Full of inaccuracies and Hollywood license, the film shows the highlights all mashed together. Thomas Jefferson was not an original delegate to the Convention; he was sent in when another Virginia had to return home. The Declaration was not signed on July 4, 1776 -- the large parchment copy was not written until the middle of July and signing began on August 2, 1776. Caesar Rodney didn't ride to the convention after escaping from his fiancé's home. The slavery section of the Declaration was voted out by the entire Congress, not by the committee of writers Those are just a few of the "liberties" taken by the film makers.
See more▼See less▲