Em 1812, durante a luta contra a invasão inglesa, o general americano Andrew Jackson conta com um punhado de caçadores e homens destreinados para defender a cidade de New Orleans, quando é informado que a frota britânica está chegando, com sessenta navios e milhares de homens para tomarem a cidade. Diante disso, uma ilha perto da cidade se torna estrategicamente importante para os dois exércitos, porém ela é habitada por Jean Lafitte, o mais impiedoso e temido corsário dos mares. Embora nunca tenha atacado um navio americano, o governador da cidade o detesta, pois Lafitte vende suas mercadorias sem pagar impostos e por isso, é adorado pelos cidadãos. Mas, quando o grande combate se aproxima, Lafitte se vê preso entre os dois exércitos. Seu coração pertence aos Estados Unidos, mas seus homens querem lutar ao lado dos ingleses.
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew...who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there'll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge's former sweetheart Leslie, who's fond of a bit of gold herself. Which side is Waldridge really on?
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
A young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.
A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presidents and a borderline tyrant. The seventh president shook up the glossy world of Washington, DC with his "common-man" methods and ideals, but also oversaw one of the most controversial events in American history: the forced removal of Indian tribes, including the Cherokees, from their homes.
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.
Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace."
The war of 1812. The defeated Napoleonic army is retreating. Three Russian soldiers settled in a snowy forest near a fire: a young (Zaletayev), an elderly and a middle-aged one. Zaletayev fantasizes — as if he had captured Napoleon. The soldiers laugh good-naturedly at him. After dinner, they fall asleep...
Two Frenchmen go to the clearing — an officer and a soldier. Russian soldiers wake up and, seeing that the officer is barely standing on his feet from cold and hunger, take him to the colonel. The French soldier sits down to the fire. The Russians give him porridge and vodka. The soldier, encouraged, sings a french song. Zaletayev echoes him. A tired Frenchman falls asleep on Zaletayev’s shoulder. The soldiers carefully shelter him. “Also people,” an elderly soldier says with a sigh.
This short film provides highlights from American history, focusing on George Washington's farewell to the troops to the War of 1812.
On April 27, 1813, American forces defeated the British at York (present-day Toronto) and captured the capital of Upper Canada - but not before suffering their own losses. History Television's Explosion 1812 looks at the Battle of York and unearths new evidence around this lesser-known event from the War of 1812 (IMDB)