Is The Patriot Movie Historically Accurate Analysis

Most movies are made just for your personal entertainment. On the other hand, movies can be historically accurate and educate the student on a topic, such as the Revolutionary War. Though The Patriot is a fictional movie, it is historically accurate in the militarily, socially, and economically sections/parts of the Revolutionary War. For starters, the military part of The Patriot was historically accurate because the British army were very strict and they were very organized and proper when fighting. Also, the colonists did actually use guerrilla warfare. Secondly, The Patriot was historically accurate in the social category for many reasons, but one of the main ones was that slaves were still regarded servants or seen as lower-class people,

In The Patriot there a few scenes showing the Britain lining up into different squads all neat, orderly, and marching, then the colonists start jumping up and out of trees, bushes, and grass; therefore, surprising the British, giving the colonists an advantage for a little while. The scene from The Patriot shows that during the Revolutionary War the British fought like you were supposed to: in squads and properly, while the colonists just showed up out of nowhere and used the element of surprise to their advantage. “Americans during the Revolutionary War adopted many of the guerilla warfare tactics....The militias would go on the occasional drill, but they were by and large farmers, artisans, and merchants...not professional soldiers” (War In the American Revolution). This quote shows that the Americans during the Revolutionary War had very little training and were just “ragtag” men or poor farmers, and that they since their lack of training and order, they used guerilla warfare, taking the British by surprise. Overall, this shows that in The Patriot, the military part(s) of the movie were true/valid, as the American militia did use guerrilla warfare, and the British army did fight neat and

In a scene in The Patriot, it showed Benjamin Martin and a British Colonel about how he wasn’t pleased with not having any say in what or how they’re taxed. This scene shows that Benjamin does not like how they have no say in what taxes are being placed upon the colonists. “If you mean by patriot, am I angry about taxation without representation, well, yes I am” (The Patriot). This quote, like the scene in the movie shows that Benjamin is angry about the fact that the colonies are being taxed without being asked, or without a choice. In the end, the colonists are just mad about not being asked their opinions about being taxed. This is also where the phrase “No taxation without representation” comes in the picture, this too happened during the Revolutionary War and in the movie, so that shows why The Patriot is accurate when it comes to