John Adams [3 Discs] [DVD] [2008]

John Adams is a great movie and history lesson! Makes one feel very patriotic and proud to be an American!!!!!!!! Highly recommended

Since American history isn’t being taught anymore, this flick does the trick.

I have only watched the first segment of this miniseries so far, but I can already tell that it is well worth my time and money (at least at the $10 discount price I paid). It presents both sides of each issue fairly--the side we want to hear, and the side that perhaps we don't. Excellent! In later segments, I will be very interested to watch the conflict between Adams and Jefferson over interpretation of the Constitution (within 11 years of its writing!). I will also want to see whether this miniseries presents, explicitly or implicitly, John Adams' stated attitude toward our form of government: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

So this is a retelling of the life of our 2nd President, John Adams. there has been a lot of myth building about our founding fathers as well as a lot of people pretending to speak about what their wishes are or would be in the 21 Century. This program wipes away much of what is thought about John Adams, and lays the proper foundation of who he was and where he stood politically. It also lays a foundation that will allow the viewers to understand how and why our political party system started, and the basic beliefs of those political parties. I, for one, would like to see more 'movies'/documentaries of this type as it was interesting to watch, plus informative and truthful.

I had been waiting for a while to see this, felt the price was too high, then out of the blue it dropped like a rock, and I had to buy it, and I am not dissapointed, it would have been worth it at the higher price. I love these History type movies, especially the ones like this that are as close to what happened as we can know. This time period is awesome and I wish they would have had these when I was in school but heck, they didn't even have VHS at that time so at least I can enjoy these now...!