The least seen, most surprising, and most joyous of Marcel Ophuls's major films is a shapeshifting investigation into the 1781 Battle of Yorktown, where a combined American and French force decided the American Revolution. By playfully combining footage of the bicentennial commemorations with various forms of restaging, Ophuls explores the different interpretations of the Revolution, the relationship between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, and the complexity of one of the world's most enduring alliances. With English subtitles.