Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

tavm After so many years of only knowing about this film bio of the 28th President of the United States, I finally got to see this on YouTube just now in honor of Presidents Day. It begins in 1909 when Woodrow Wilson was just president of Princeton as he's watching the college football game in which Yale is defeating his team in Princeton's home turf. From there, some men arrive to offer him a chance to run for governor of New Jersey which he wins. It then covers both of his terms of being president during which his first wife dies before courting and marrying another, he reluctantly enters his country in World War I, and then tries to form a lasting peace with other countries by forming the League of Nations. Despite the 2 and a half hour running time, I was enthralled by the whole thing while also being aware of it glossing over some of the not-so-good-things about Wilson like his attitude about blacks not unlike those of others raised in the South like him. Alexander Knox seemed really authoritative in taking on the role. So on that note, I recommend Wilson. P.S. Since I always like to cite when players from my favorite movie-It's a Wonderful Life-are in other films, here it's Thomas Mitchell-Uncle Billy there-and Charles Halton-Mr. Carter there-who appear as Joseph Tumulty and Colonel House, respectively. By the way, they have contact in this movie unlike in IAWL!

gkeith_1 Spoilers. Observations. Opinions.Excellent film, but possibly overshadowed in the public's eye by Meet Me in St. Louis, also of the same year. Meet Me had Judy Garland, and it is still shown a gazillion times on modern TV.We were in World War Two when this film was released, with a looking back in hindsight. In the nineteen forties, Germany was still the bad guy, with America, France and Britain on the other side.The idealism of the soldiers in the film would only be later met with terrible realization that many would not return home. Same thing in the second war, and the fact that the war to end all wars did not fulfill its own prophecy.Alexander Knox did a great job, as did Geraldine Fitzgerald. The daughters were all excellent.Vincent Price portrayed McAdoo, who would marry Eleanor Wilson, one of the daughters. Vinnie did a great job.The actual first war footage was very nice.In my History of World War One course at university, we were shown American propaganda cartoons and posters showing Germany as a very hideous and monstrous enemy. These were produced in order to convince the American public to go to war, nonetheless even though many American soldiers had German ancestry. I did not see those in this film.I have a Bachelor of Arts in American History Degree. Wilson was also an historian. I also studied him in the course, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, in which we covered his presidential campaign of 1912. We studied that the other candidates that year were William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Eugene V. Debs (socialist). This film shows the people that Wilson had to beat to even win the Democratic Party nomination.Wilson was born in Virginia, a bastion of the Confederate States of America. Growing up in a losing and beaten environment which occurred after the American Civil War, Wilson came from a tradition of Southern pride and ideals. He was a scholarly man, even-tempered and fair. He was very religious, and prayed before every meal. He was very idealistic, and did not want to give in, as president, to the worldly and financially opportunistic foibles of some of his fellow Americans.P.S. World War Two was just a continuation of World War One, with a twenty-plus period in between when the world was getting ready for another war. This is according to history professors of my acquaintance.

calvinnme As was mentioned elsewhere, this was perhaps one of the first "big films" to win and compete for so many Academy Awards and be a flop at the box office. Now the divide between box office and critical acclaim is largely a predictable abyss, but it was still novelty in 1944.This was Darryl F. Zanuck's personal project, created after he returned from his service in WWII. Zanuck supervised every phase of production, and wanted to give Americans a film about an American that personified the ideals they were fighting for in Europe and in the Pacific - those of the equality of all men, and that Americans value peace but will fight if confronted and when they do fight, they pull out all the stops. In 1944, if one was to make a biopic about such a man, the obvious choice would be Woodrow Wilson. FDR might be a more obvious choice today, and his legacy has largely eclipsed that of Wilson, but at the time FDR was still alive and the sitting President, so portraying him in a biopic would be inappropriate.Alexander Knox was a perfect choice to play Wilson, looking, moving, and even talking just like him. Most might find this rather long at two and a half hours, and the Technicolor will not impress in the year 2013, and Wilson's views on race have been conveniently omitted, but I think it's time well spent to remember a President, a film, and an actor not often remembered today. As a special treat, you even get to hear Charles Coburn sing!

rhonda-stump It's funny how they left out the fact that he segregated the military and segregated all government facilities in Washington DC such as, restrooms, drinking fountains etc. He belonged to the Progressive Party which highly admired the Russian Socialists and wished to implement the same government in the US. He began the Secret Service which was used to spy on Americans which opposed this particular view and had thousands of ordinary Americans imprisoned for opposing the Progressive/Socialist ideology. This was one of the most racist presidents our country has had. Why is this information kept out of history books? He premiered the racist silent film, "Birth of a Nation" in the White House in 1919 which was produced by the KKK to depict blacks as criminals and whites as victims. Why are there grade schools named after him, why is there a school at Harvard named after him? Progressives have always been a political party which has a negative ideology.