The Crossing (2000): Cast & Plot

After repeated defeats during the American Revolutionary War’s 1776 campaign, the Continental Army finds itself retreating across New Jersey. Over the last six months they have lost New York City and been pressed by the British through the state, with about 90 percent of their troops either killed, taken prisoner, or deserting. The mood is grim, supplies are dwindling, and winter’s bite tightens its hold on camp life. In a tense turn of events, the army manages a desperate crossing of the Delaware River to the Pennsylvania shore, using what few boats remain usable on that stretch of water. This gives them a temporary reprieve from pursuit, but only until the river freezes again, which would allow the British to cross back and threaten Philadelphia once more.