The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory

*The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory*
The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory
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Genre	Western
Based on	13 Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo; by Lon Tinkle
Teleplay by	Clyde Ware; Norman McLeod Morrill;
Directed by	Burt Kennedy
Starring	James Arness; Brian Keith; Alec Baldwin; David Ogden Stiers; Raul Julia; Lorne Greene;
Music by	Peter Bernstein
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Stockton Briggle; Richard Carrothers; Dennis D. Hennessy;
Producers	Bill Finnegan; Patricia Finnegan; Sheldon Pinchuk;
Cinematography	John Elsenbach
Editor	Michael N. Knue
Running time	170 minutes
Production companies	Briggle, Hennessey, Carrothers & Associates; The Finnegan Company;
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	January 26, 1987

The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory is a 1987 American Western television film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, directed by Burt Kennedy and written by Clyde Ware and Norman McLeod Morrill, based on the 1958 non-fiction book 13 Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo by Lon Tinkle. It stars James Arness as James Bowie, Brian Keith as Davy Crockett, Alec Baldwin as William Barrett Travis, Raul Julia as Antonio López de Santa Anna, and features a cameo appearance by Lorne Greene as Sam Houston. Unlike most other films about the Alamo — the most prominent other exception being the 1955 film The Last Command (which was released during the cultural frenzy created by Walt Disney's Davy Crockett television miniseries) — it focuses on Bowie as the main character rather than Crockett.

The film aired on NBC on January 26, 1987.