My Country 'Tis of Thee

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A panoramic view of American history from the Pilgrims to 1950 utilizing archival footage.A panoramic view of American history from the Pilgrims to 1950 utilizing archival footage.A panoramic view of American history from the Pilgrims to 1950 utilizing archival footage.

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5.1/10

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

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Marvin Miller

Narrator
(voice)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self
(archive footage)
(as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

Chester W. Nimitz

Self
(archive footage)
(as Admiral Nimitz)

George S. Patton

Self
(archive footage)
(as General Patton)

George C. Marshall

Self
(archive footage)
(as General George Marshall)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self
(archive footage)
(as General Eisenhower)

Henry H. Arnold

Self
(archive footage)
(as General 'Hap' Arnold)

Douglas MacArthur

Self
(archive footage)
(as General Douglas MacArthur)

Harry S. Truman

Self
(archive footage)
(as President Truman)

Erville Alderson

William Seward
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Sidney Blackmer

Theodore Roosevelt
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Truman Bradley

Voice Announcing D-Day Invasion
(voice)
(uncredited)

Douglas Kennedy

Paratrooper
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

John Litel

Patrick Henry
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Frank McGlynn Sr.

Abraham Lincoln
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Grant Mitchell

John Quincy Adams
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Addison Richards

Thomas Jefferson
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Ferris Taylor

John Adams
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

User reviews12

Featured review

10/10

A must see

I just saw this short on the "Horatio Hornblower" DVD. I have to say this is a great short history lesson about the United States.

They should show this to school children today. I must see to fuel your love of country.

I would hate to see how todays Hollywood would take this short and make it into a "see how bad we are and were" video.

Please clean this gem up. You can see the film pop and skip. A good cleaning would make this look fantastic.

The disclaimer at the start is crazy. Why make apologies for the way they lived or thought at that time. Nothing is this short is in anyway offensive unless the viewer wants to hate America.

get152
Mar 9, 2007
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Trivia
The DVD version apologizes for any ethnic stereotypes that may appear in the film.

Goofs
The narration claims that the plane carrying the first atomic bomb took off from Okinawa. This statement is incorrect - it took off from Tinian in the Marianas.

Quotes
[first lines]
Abraham Lincoln: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Narrator: Upon that proposition, this great land of liberty was founded. And to this day the persecuted, the oppressed, the weary look upon our shores with eyes of hope.