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The Pilgrims
2015 · Film · documentary · 120 min
Directed by Ric Burns
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th century is a seminal, if often misunderstood episode of American and world history. The Pilgrims explores the forces, circumstances, personalities and events that converged to exile the English group in Holland and eventually propel their crossing to the New World; a story universally familiar in broad outline, but almost entirely unfamiliar to a general audience in its rich and compelling historical actuality. Includes the real history of the "first thanksgiving".
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Pilgrim "lionizing" is just more of a fairy tale situation. People aren't taught very much about them. Most of the history taught in my experience is in elementary school where obviously you can only go so deep.
The gist that is taught is that they were one of the first and took a big chance is really all it is. There's not much depth to it as far as adoration of the Pilgrims in the US.
I had to read / find some good documentaries later in life before I really learned about them:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/pilgrims/