I love this movie so much

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Henry King was an outstanding director and was blessed to make many good films. But of course he never got one Oscar - in his case it seems the system was completely broken (as has been for many others sadly). Well it is a system after all and works with the kind of people who know to push its buttons. Unfortunately for many of these people knowing how to push buttons doesn't necessarily mean they have made something important. But Henry King knew how to deal with important themes as was this Woodrow Wilson portrait - truly he was a great man.

This 2.5 hour movie won FIVE Oscars and was nominated for FIVE more!! It is the best major presidential biopic that I have seen in that it covered Wilson's entire presidency--not just a portion of it. This is my 2nd viewing of the movie, and I got MUCH more from it this time than I did from only one viewing. This movie was made during WWII, and I suppose that audiences were more drawn toward experiencing WW II, as in Since You Went Away (1944), The Seventh Cross (1944), or Lifeboat (1944)--or escaping from it, as in Going My Way (1944) or Gaslight (1944) did. My assumption is that movie audiences did not much want to look backwards towards WW I. Still, there is some good history, here, presented in an entertaining and enlightening fashion. I felt that Alexander Knox gave a convincing— perhaps Oscar-worthy--performance as Wilson. The movie generally presents the legislative accomplishments of his first term and his struggle with WWI and trying to get his 14 points and the League of Nations approved during his second term. It also inserted some real black-and-white newsreels from period. Also, I am quite sure that Knox gave a couple of Wilson's speeches as they were originally written. e.g. his speech to Congress asking them to declare war on Germany. I have two main reservations with this movie: 1) It only covered the positive side of Wilson's presidency and did not cover his negatives (but I suppose that is typical of a Hollywood movie). 2) I felt the internal designs of the White House were a bit too ornate. If you haven't seen this movie, I would recommend it.

This is a film I've wanted to see for a long time since it was nominated for best picture and won a bunch of Oscars in 1944 (in what may be considered one of the weakest years for the Oscar with "Going My Way" winning best film (over the great "Double Indemnity") and Bing Crosby winning best actor). Worldwide as well this was not a great year, as I could only find "A Canterbury Tale", "Ivan the Terrible" and "Henry the V" as memorable films made that year (you could add "Laura" and a couple of Preston Sturges comedies. Blame it on the war). I was also interested in watching a color film made in 1944 in order to compare it with the great British color films made at that time. All in all, the cinematography was very good but the film was dull as hell, I suppose because Wilson was boring as hell and was interpreted by Alexander Knox who gave a performance boring as hell. I heard Henry Fonda was considered for the part and that would have certainly helped the quality of the film and its box office, which was terrible. Regarding historical accuracy, I leave that to others who have studied the matter.

This epical film was made in 1944, during our darkest hour! I was lucky to have caught and taped it on AMC when it ran films without interruption.The continuity of 'Wilson', which for all its sweep covers only about 12 years, is bound along by a series of uplifting speeches--from his gubernatorial-candidacy stumping to wartime president--which are better in the hearing than in reciting in front of civics class. When I see yellowed photos of schoolchildren in class from a century ago, I imagine that these orations are what they heard Teacher recall. Still, I found delight in the brief glimpses of domestic, somewhat mythologized life of pre-Great War America in the Wilson household, probably not touched on in class. Imagine a family evening of singing tunes around the piano in these times! Two odd moments in 'Wilson' captivate my attention. In a minor shot concluding Wilson's nomination in 1912, he's asked to "Smile!" for the camera and does so, literally in one frame! (Try it on your freeze-frame.) And then there's the film's opening. Totally unexpected and rather outside the stern tone of what follows, we are treated to a fictitious slice of the Princeton-Yale football game of 1910--war on a field of friendly strife. This brief recreation of "stone age" gridiron play is utterly unique in feature film. It displays the fearsome-looking leather helmets--a few years after their faddish peak--which both intended to assure players' cranial safety and presaged the headgear many would don in earnest short years ahead. For college-football historian/fans, a time to mist up.We have too few class efforts on the filmed lives of our presidents, whether in whole or in part. 'Wilson' is one of these gems, in spite of understandable lapses expected in a film of its day.