Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

  • Adventure
  • History
  • TV Movie
11/21/1979
97

Storyline

In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. The film tells the adventurous journey of the Pilgrims to an unknown land and future.

Cast

Reviews

  • Wuchak

    Gives you a good idea of how challenging the risky journey was

    In September-November 1620, the Mayflower carries 102 passengers plus 25-30 crewmembers from southwest England to the cape in what is now Massachusetts. Anthony Hopkins plays the captain while Richard Crenna is on hand as the leader of the Pilgrims, a group of Calvinist Puritans who chose to separate completely from the Church of England and were thus dubbed Separatists.

    "Mayflower: The Pilgrims Adventure" (1979) is a television production criticized as the Love Boat without a shuffleboard due to some romantic subplots, but it works well enough to help you see what the daring historical adventure was like. Besides, as the enlightening Epilogue blurb points out, Pris...

    August 5, 2024

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