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The Alamo, is the story of the fall of the mission to the Mexicans. Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob Thornton play Sam Houston and Davey Crockett. This movie is based on the 13 days in 1836 when only 200 Texans held off the Mexicans army of about 7,000 before the mission fell and everyone was killed. The beginning of the movie the director set it up as a flashback. We see the outcome of the battle and then back to Sam Houston trying to sellTexas. Davey Crockett and a few of his men decide to go out to Texas, they get there just in time to be trapped. While the men in the Alamo are comforted by Crockett's presents, he does not seem to be the man they had all heard stories of. The Texans hold off the Mexicans for 13 days under heavy firing until the Mexicans attack during the middle of the night. While this movie was based on a historical event, the filmmakers make the story a little more their own. One of my favorite parts in the whole movie was when Davey Crockett was about to die says how he thought Santa Anna would be taller.