The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory

{{Short description|1987 TV film}}

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{{Infobox television

| image = The alamo 13 days to glory.jpg

| caption = Print advertisement

| genre = Western

| director = Burt Kennedy

| based_on = {{Based on|13 Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo|Lon Tinkle}}

| teleplay = {{Plainlist|

• Clyde Ware
• Norman McLeod Morrill

}}

| starring = {{Plainlist|

• James Arness
• Brian Keith
• Alec Baldwin
• David Ogden Stiers
• Raul Julia
• Lorne Greene

}}

| music = Peter Bernstein

| country = United States

| language = English

| executive_producer = {{Plainlist|

• Stockton Briggle
• Richard Carrothers
• Dennis D. Hennessy

}}

| producer = {{Plainlist|

• Bill Finnegan
• Patricia Finnegan
• Sheldon Pinchuk

}}

| cinematography = John Elsenbach

| editor = Michael N. Knue

| company = {{Plainlist|

• Briggle, Hennessey, Carrothers & Associates
• The Finnegan Company

}}

| network = NBC

| released = {{start date|1987|1|26}}

| runtime = 170 minutes

}}

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.{{cite web|url= https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/420317/the-alamo-13-days-to-glory#credits |title=The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory|work=Turner Classic Movies|publisher=Turner Broadcasting System|location=United States|access-date=June 22, 2024}} 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.