The War of 1812
2011 · 120 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 189 VOTES · DIR. Lawrence R. Hott, Diane Garey
Overview
The War 1812 is a two-hour film history of a deeply significant event in North American and world history. The war shaped American, Canadian and British destiny in the most literal way possible: had one or two battles or decisions gone a different way, a map of the United States today would look entirely (and shockingly) different. The fires of this war forged the nation of Canada; at the same time, the result tolled the end of Native American dreams of a separate nation. By war's end, the process of Native nation removal had already begun in the southeast, paving the way for a Cotton Kingdom powered by slavery, and a United States that had been on the verge of collapse was ready to announce its arrival as a global power. The U.S. did not win the War of 1812, but the noble experiment of democracy had managed to survive intense pressure from without, and within.
Dialogue Timeline — 2,307 lines
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00:00:00 TONIGHT. >> THAT'S RIGHT.
00:06:14 FROM AMERICAN MERCHANT VESSELS.
00:11:01 "THE GREAT SPIRIT SAID HE GAVE THIS GREAT ISLAND
00:16:25 IN CANADA, THERE WAS EVEN LESS ENTHUSIASM FOR THE WAR.
00:21:02 narrator: LIEUTENANT HANKS SURRENDERED TO THE BRITISH
00:25:39 AND THEY WERE HUGELY IMPORTANT.
00:30:34 THEN THE BRITISH PRIMED THE CANNON.
00:35:07 IS A DIFFICULT PIECE OF WATER TO GET ACROSS
00:40:00 IN COMMISSION.
00:44:23 MANY TIMES THE DEAD MARCH WAS HEARD IN THE CAMP."
00:49:13 AFTER THE DISASTER AT RIVER RAISIN
00:53:47 - THE TERM "THE FOG OF WAR" WAS COINED AT THAT TIME
00:58:02 THIS WAS THE TIME TO TRY THE STOUTEST HEART."
01:02:19 AND EVERYTHING HE STOOD FOR.
01:07:13 SO THIS OFFICER DUTIFULLY RODE FORWARD AND SAID
01:11:00 RIGHT UP UNTIL THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
01:15:40 FIRE HAD BRED FIRE.
01:20:26 THAT ARE STANDING BY WITH THE SURGEONS
01:25:33 AND, IN FACT, THE CAPITAL WAS VIRTUALLY UNDEFENDED.
01:30:15 THIS WAS JUST STRAIGHTFORWARD PAYBACK.
01:34:58 COMING BY LAND
01:39:25 AND ON THE BACK OF IT
01:44:13 WITH THE PIRATES FROM NEARBY BARATARIA BAY.
01:48:59 BUT IN THE U.S., EUPHORIA REIGNED.