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My partner teaches English as a Second Language in a local public high school
and she is currently preparing a citizenship section for low level students.
 She is looking for good, widely-available videotapes on the early history of
the United States.  So far, all she has found at the high school is a really
awful Disney rendering of "Johnny Tremain."  Does anyone out there know of
any more realistic portrayals of the revolutionary period that would be
accessable to new speakers of English?
 
Stephen McCarthy
Boston