Truly excellent films on the Revolutionary War are rare indeed, and this is absolutely one of the very best.  While it is a serious, well-filmed story on General Washington's most challenging times during the war, with plenty of drama built into it, it is very much a factual masterpiece, more than adequately supported at the conclusion by a summary of the lives of the individuals who were most prominently featured in the story.  The film carefully built up enduring the dire situation at Valley Forge into culminating with Washington's famed "Crossing of the Delaware," no mean logistics feat at the time, and the surprise taking of the British forces at Trenton