Features The Alamo (2004) Deserves to be Better Remembered We consider why The Alamo (2004) with Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett is the best movie on its subject... and has gone overlooked.

Remember the Alamo -- and forget the negative stories you've probably read or heard about this latest film chronicling the famous Texas battle.

New version of "The Alamo" is a historically credible but overly prosaic account of the most celebrated episode in the creation of an Americanized Texas. Refreshingly revisionist, impressively ...

This Alamo is a thing of restrictive moderation, a momentous American event reenacted expensively but too tastefully. It’s a screwy wiring deep in the heart of Texas that Davy Crockett emerges ...

The good news on The Alamo, a $95 million production that made $22 million at the box office, is that it's the most historically accurate film portrayal of the events at the infamous San Antonio ...

The Alamo: An Epic Told From Both Sides (2002), by Jack Jackson. This Austin-based author contributed raunchy comics to underground newspapers in the sixties. Today his pen-and-ink style—though ...

The Alamo remains a fiery cascade of bullets, blades and cannonballs that casts into shadow the struggle Mexican Americans would go through to exist with dignity in the United States -- a struggle ...

John Lee Hancock's lavish epic western The Alamo struggled to recoup its cost at the worldwide box office, but "it isn't a total turkey." A solid cast including Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Quaid ...

Meet the talented cast and crew behind 'The Alamo (2004)' on Moviefone. Explore detailed bios, filmographies, and the creative team's insights. Dive into the heart of this movie through its stars ...

The Alamo”I’ve come to grips with the fact that I’m just slow,” admits director John Lee Hancock, whose epic was slated for a Christmas release. ”But I enjoy fiddling with stuff. My ...