As history, The Alamo looks accurate, and, indeed, we find that San Antonio de Béxar was carefully re-created with little sparing of expense (the film cost $95 million to make) and with the able assistance of the Alamo historian and curator, Richard Bruce Winders, and Stephen L.

The Battle and the Texas Revolution The Battle of the Alamo in 1836 was part of the Texas Revolution in which the Mexican state of Tejas won independence and became a self-governing republic: Texas.

The battle of the Alamo – which took place during the Texas Revolution, when the Mexican army laid siege on a mission for 13 days and hundreds of Texians (as Texas settlers were called) and Tejanos fought them to their deaths – has become a metaphor for American liberty and honor.

The Alamo (1960) John Wayne's epic The Alamo was filmed near Brackettville, Texas, on a set specifically made for the film. Though "Alamo Village" is no longer open to the public, the actual Alamo, in downtown San Antonio, is open every day except Christmas.