News & Reviews
By Andy Newman
Joe McCarthy sees Redcoats everywhere in Brooklyn. In his mind's eye, British troops come surging by the tens of thousands off the war boats massed in the Narrows off Bay Ridge, just as they did on the humid, breezy morning of Aug. 27, 1776. Mr. McCarthy wants everyone to be able to see what he sees.
In August 2001, after the film's premiere at BAM, Joe McCarthy was interviewed on Terry Gross' "Fresh Air."
To hear the interview play here or download here.
"The Brave Man was a big hit with my three sophomore sections of American History. ... I plan to make it a permanent part of my curriculum."
~ History teacher, Brooklyn, New York
"A fine, bold work."
~ Barbara Abrash, Associate Director, Center for Media, Culture, and History, NYU
"The irony of our loss of the historical past and of our inheritance of the historical present is very powerfully made."
~ John Lahr, Viewer
"Not the usual re-enactment of a battle of the American Revolution ... a story of putting a cause first over personal safety... fast-paced... History teachers in junior high school and above will want to use this production with classes studying the American Revolution as well as New York history."
~ School Library Journal (April 2002)
"... this first-rate video is highly recommended for Revolutionary War collections..."
~ Library Journal (June 2002)
"The Revolution comes alive in the streets. A break-through evocation."
~ Paul Spencer Byard, Director, Historic Preservation Program, Columbia University