Don't factual movies just make you smile?

It is one of those movies that moves you, that makes you want to cry or smile with joy. It is full of information and factual information, yet if you didn't know that, you would just think it was one of the most memorable movies you had ever seen. For AP US History, we were allowed to watch any movies that our teacher picked for us for extra credit. He listed off movies that sounded boring, movies that sounded even MORE boring, and then he listed one particular movie that made me smile; it was "The Patriot".
When I was about eight or so, I remember my parents renting this war movie that I was definitely not interested in at the time. What eight year old girl who fantasized in princesses and barbies would be, anyways? When I was a little older, though, when the movie became old news and was on the television, I watched it. I was never, and am still not, too interested in the fighting and war movies so I wasn't too thrilled to watch it. But since there was nothing else on I started it watching it; I was hooked the whole time. From beginning to end, the movie had a great story line. Of course there was a lot of killing and blood, but that made the story so much more stronger. It had love, sadness, happiness, everything all stuffed into it; it was just an all time good movie. One of the main reasons I love these kind of movies, the informational ones that is, is how much you really learn in them without them being boring. You could sit in class for a whole day, listening to a lecture from one of your boring teachers and then go watch the movie about that lecture and learn more from the movie than the lecture itself! It truly makes everything so much easier, but of course life isn't that easy. Also, this movie has Heath Ledger in it... makes it ten times better. :)
So back to my AP class, we were allowed to watch it for extra credit, so of course I watched it! Even though I had seen this movie oodles of times, I wanted to watch it again because it was and is just that good. We went to my friends house with other people today to watch it together, and I am pretty sure that the whole time they were all talking, but not me! I was actually WATCHING it because it is such an outstanding movie, ya just gotta love it!