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
Inherit the Wind (1960 film) referring to it as "a film that rebukes the past when it might also have feared the future". , the website Rotten Tomatoes had given the film a 92% approval rating, based on 24 reviews with an average rating of 8/10. Academy Awards "Inherit the Wind" was nominated for four Academy Awards. BAFTA Berlin International Film Festival Golden Globes Inherit the Wind (1960 film) Inherit the Wind is a 1960 Hollywood film adaptation of the 1955 play of the same name, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, directed by Stanley Kramer. It stars Spencer Tracy as lawyer Henry