The Patriot (2000)

The Patriot (Danish: Patrioten) is an American action and drama film from 2000, starring Mel Gibson as farmer Benjamin Martin. The film is based on the American Revolutionary War, where farmer and war veteran Benjamin Martin does not want to go to war against the British, but after his son Thomas Martin is killed by the brutal British commander William Tavington, he enters the war, after which he collects a militia of farmers and merchants. They end up becoming a turning point for the war, until Benjamin Martin's second son, Gabriel, loses a major defeat, where he also dies. It ends in a major battle between the Continental Army and Benjamin Martin's militia against the British. Here the Americans win the battle, and at the same time Benjamin Martin wins over his archenemy, William Tavington.

We are in 1776 in South Carolina, USA, the British Empire, at a wooden villa with adjacent fields, where war veteran and farmer Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) lives with his seven children. A letter arrives from a postman on horseback, and later that evening Benjamin Martin opens the letter with his two oldest sons, Gabriel (Heath Ledger) and Thomas Martin (Gregory Smith). The letter lists the men who have joined the United States Continental Army. The letter also states that they are to come to Charles Town to help decide whether South Carolina should join the rising rebellion against King George III of England.