1776

1972 • 165 minutes

About this movie

You'll be seeing stars and stripes as the most fascinating leaders in American history come to lifein 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 turn the inevitable war with England into a Declaration of Independence! MPAA Rating: PG © 1972, renewed 2000, © 2002 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.