Battle of the Alamo the 1950s Disney miniseries "Davy Crockett", which was largely based on myth. Within several years, John Wayne directed and starred in one of the best-known, but questionably accurate, film versions, 1960's "The Alamo". Another film also called "The Alamo" was released in 2004. CNN described it as possibly "the most character-driven of all the movies made on the subject". It is also considered more faithful to the actual events than other movies. A number of songwriters have been inspired by the Battle of the Alamo. Tennessee Ernie Ford's "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" spent 16 weeks on the country music
Legacy of the Battle of the Alamo covering the battle was not published until 1948, when John Myers Myers' "The Alamo" was released. Since then, a litany of books have followed, most notably Walter Lord's seminal work in 1961, "A Time to Stand". As the 19th century progressed, the battle began to appear as a plot device in many novels and plays. In 1869, novelists Jeremiah Clemens and Bernard Lile wrote fictionalized accounts of the battle. Novelist Amelia Barr produced her own fictional version, "Remember the Alamo", in 1888. In her book, "Alamo Images", Susan Pendergrast Schoelwer noted that in these early novels "the Alamo passages seem