As our schools manage to do a poorer and poorer job of educating our youth about America, movies like this one can help teach our kids about American history.  George Washington was one of the giants of history, and this film is a dramatization of one of his many great achievements -- the Battle of Trenton.  Leading a small, discouraged, and cold and hungry American militia Army, Washington took on the finest soldiers in the world and won a great victory.  Had he not done so, the American revolutionary cause might well have failed.  History correctly records that it was George Washington whose inspired leadership won the Battle of Trenton.