My Country 'Tis of Thee

1/10/2026

Quite why anyone thought it was necessary, or a good idea, to try to condense a few hundred years of American colonisation into twenty minutes is anyone’s guess, but by cannibalising a few other movies and including a rousing score this has a go. We start with some disillusioned British pilgrims arriving before deciding they wanted to burn their tea and establish their own congrefs. Despite the protestations of the indigenous population, these interlopers spread themselves and their religion in all directions and that works for a while til the confederacy decides it doesn’t care much for Abe’s equality policies and a schism develops. Lots of bloodshed later we find ourselves finding an assassinated Austrian archduke’s death leads to even more and then, of course, there’s Pearl Harbor and K