The Alamo Movies

By TheAlamoFilm.com

There have been some 11+ movies created about The Alamo since man first started using a motion picture camera. The first Alamo movie was shot in 1911 and was called “The Immortal Alamo”. It starred Francis Ford (the older brother of John Ford) and several other silent movie stars that time has forgotten. No copies of this film are known to exist, so please consult your attic.

Since then, there have been other films about the Alamo:

Martyrs of the Alamo (1935)
Heroes of the Alamo (1937)
The Alamo (1960)
and others...

Billy Bob Thornton in Disney's 2004 epic, The Alamo

The latest Alamo movie to grace the silver screen was Touchstone Picture’s grand $95,000,000 epic one again named, The Alamo. The film, finished in 2003, was scheduled for a release initially in December 2003 and then rescheduled for release in April 2004. This remake was directed by native Texan John Lee Hancock and produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Mark Johnson. The script was originally developed by John Sayles, Stephen Gaghan and Leslie Bohem, however, John Lee Hancock threw it out for his own version (parts loosely based on the other writers).

Please consult our Frequently Asked Questions page for more in-depth details on the film’s production aspects.

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