Film · Angel Studios · 2026

Young Washington
68Worth an evening.
The officer, not the monument. PG-13 war. Worth it awake, and not the whole century.
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The review
His father dies in 1743 and the formal education goes with him. His half-brother Lawrence teaches him to survey. By 1753 he wants a name big enough for Virginia's rooms, and for Sally Fairfax, and the war between Britain and France hands him a command instead. William Franklyn-Miller plays him. Andy Serkis is Braddock. Ben Kingsley is Dinwiddie. Mary-Louise Parker is his mother. Jon Erwin directed. The film stays in those years, through a disaster a young officer survives. It is PG-13 for war and blood. It made $47 million, Angel's biggest release of 2026. Reviews were mixed.
Watch it for the formation: ambition, a class he cannot marry, a job that becomes a war, a man who is not yet a statue. Virginia in those years still held people as property. This film's subject is the officer. Do not let the red coat be the whole century, and do not pretend a mixed review means the history is a cartoon. The direction is real. He was young, he was useful, and he had not yet become the country. The number is 68.
Journal
Keep Young Washington in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Letters from Iwo Jima
76 instead of 68
Letters from Iwo Jima is still a history film, and it scores 76 instead of 68. What you gain is truth: It refuses the cartoon of the enemy.
The eight
- 8Industry
Surveying, then soldiering. The jobs are what make him, not a narration.
- 5Household
A dead father, a mother, and a love class will not allow. No marriage yet.
- 5Piety
A man being formed. The film does not need a conversion scene to be serious.
- 8Courage
He goes to a frontier war and lives through a command that fails.
- 8Republic
The subject is the officer the republic will later inherit.
- 6Temperance
Ambition is the appetite. The blood is a battle, not a sport.
- 6Truth
The years are 1753 to 1755. A film smooths them. The direction is history.
- 8Stewardship
What those years hand on is a commander who has already failed and lived.
Where to watch
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