00:00:00Martyrs of the Alamo is the earliest surviving Alamo film. It was produced in
00:00:051915 by D.W. Griffith and directed by Christie Cavanaugh. It was made in the
00:00:12same year as Griffith's Birth of a Nation and unfortunately it carries some of the
00:00:17same negative racial stereotypes toward Mexicans that Birth of a Nation did with
00:00:23African Americans. That aside, if you can get aside that, this is quite an epic
00:00:31telling of the film. It has a wonderful fort, some really terrific action
00:00:35sequences, and one of the most Baroque Alamos that you'll ever see. Looks
00:00:41nothing like the real thing but is a thing of beauty nonetheless. Walter Long
00:00:47plays Santa Anna who in this film is pretty much an inveterate drug fiend as
00:00:52one of the titles says. And all of the other men in the Alamo wear fur hats.
00:00:58This is the furriest Alamo cast you'll ever see and some really terrific battle
00:01:03sequences. Unlike most Alamo films, this one goes on to depict the Battle of San
00:01:08Jacinto as well, so we do have something approaching a happy ending which is
00:01:13something Alamo films all too rarely get. This is 1915's Martyrs of the Alamo.
00:01:28The Alamo to the Alamo. The Final. The Internet. The Alamo. The Clare of the Alamo. The
00:01:41Alamo. The Bilal of the Alamo. The Alamo. The Madras. The Alamo. The Black
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