We can also credit the Puritans for their belief in teaching boys AND girls to read. The practice of only educating boys was still prevalent in 1900 in England when my grandmother was a young girl. The Puritans expected everyone in their church to read the bible of their time. Teaching girls to read was quite a step forward and spread through other colonies over time.

I love how people only watch shows to pick apart the history. My ancestors were on the Mayflower and I am proud of the brave people who had enough bravery to make the voyage. God bless America 🇺🇸

At least 8 of my mother's ancestors were on the Mayflower. One of the reasons for their making landfall was the need for water. That first winter half of them died from various illnesses that probably were new to them. They brought illness from Europe and appear to have been impacted by those found in America. The abandoned native village they first inhabited had been abandoned due a plague in the village.

Thank you William Bradford for all your efforts . RIP

William Bradford was my great grandfather & I’m so proud of his vision & what he established in America’s earliest days.

The Pilgrim Fathers' trip symbolizes religious freedom and discovery. Their daring crossing of the Atlantic and founding of Plymouth Colony changed American history. This story highlights the struggles and tenacity that shaped a new planet. 🇺🇸🗽🌎

Fortunately yet ever so brief that is. The fairy tale falls apart when you start dissecting the story from myth, lies and misinformation! ❤️👏🧐🧑‍🎨♾️

My mother's family came in 1635 on the Increase. Yes God bless them for coming and God bless America.

If you ever get to the area around Oxford, go to Old Jordan to see the Mayflower Barn. The timbers match the description of the beams from the Mayflower, including the repair on the beam mentioned here. You can also see the Meeting House used by the Quakers and see the graves of many of William Penn’s family. That is part of one of the Girl Scouts’ three Old World New Dreams routes in England. When ships were no longer seaworthy, they were often sold to build barns.

The world needs more people like you. Thank you for your kind words!

My ancestor, Moses Fletcher was aboard the Mayflower and one of the signatories of the Mayflower Compact. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was related to my grandpa, Albert Washington Fletcher on my maternal side. I never knew about this until the mid 70s, around 11/12 years old, when dusting a bookshelf at my Mom's and a book fell with a piece of paper falling out. I looked at it and said the Mayflower Manifest. I looked through the names and saw Moses Fletcher. Asking Mom about this, she said he was our relative but that paper was just a copy of the actual manifest.

One valuable piece of the puzzle they are missing is the fact that the Mayflower leaders held the seasons by the stars calculations. They did not just look around and hope they got planting right and were ignorant of this fact. They held the alignment of the seasons that some Indians held and that was one piece of the respected puzzle that quickly bonded them. As for the Indians, they were at war with each other for hundreds of years and were hunting each others tribes to kill or make slaves. This is what some tribes felt when they first saw the white man as they were cautious in dealing with them.

Boston born we lived in-between Plymouth and Boston on the coast, I've always been keenly aware of the native before us, almost every street name was Indian, many towns names have Indian names, there everywhere.

Mistake in the documentary. The image of the Mayflower is flying the Union Jack. The Act of Union did not take place until 1707.

What a load of nonsense. They were looking for freedom for THEIR religious beliefs. Anyone else's was witch craft, sin and evil.

I recently found out that I'm related to Samuel Fuller and John Alden. Alden is my 10th great grandfather, and Samuel is my 9th great grandfather.

Some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. For being puritans some of them sounded a bit crazy to be honest. One almost was hung for mutainy while stranded on an island in the Bahamas after a shipwreck several years before The Mayflower.🤦🏼‍♀️ I read about people getting excommunicated seaveral times over. They were warriors though. They fought for this country in every war and worked on the underground railroad. They were amazing people.

I’m a Mayflower descendant. This documentary is half baked. The depiction of Indian relations is completely biased. We know because we have the real history in our families.Don’t believe everything you watch

history is gray & complex because it is made by human beings who are likewise

I am descended from the Rev Thomas Blossom who was a friend of Pastor Robinson. He did not make it to America and is buried in Leiden. Our family live in Queensland Australia.

Plymouth Massachusetts 🇺🇸

I guess we're very fortunate our ancestors survived it all. 50% died is crazy.

Imagine living their time!

They were NOT Puritans, they were Pilgrims. Two entirely different groups and colonies (Plymouth vs. Massachusetts Bay, respectively).

They found a shipwreck...it seemed like no one had been here before ... ah, what?

Thank heavens for our colonial ancestors who made this place what it is. Everyone here is far better off than they would be otherwise.

A Long LONG Time Ago i Can still Remember how that music used to make Me Smile

How did the native Americans read and understand the pilgrims note about paying them for the spring planting seed later ? This is an earnest question

Why do the Pilgrims get all the credit when Jamestown in Virginia was already settled before the Mayflower ever sailed?

Puritans persecuted? What a load of propaganda. During the reigns of Elizabeth or James I, name two - just two - Puritans who were burned at the stake or tortured.They lost some civil rights, precisely because they wouldn't conform to the Anglican church, which was horribly sinful in their eyes. This rigid sanctimony made them quite unpopular and actively disliked - they banned Christmas, forbade dancing, tore down Maypoles, outlawed gambling and card games and theater performances, and would have turned England into a theocracy. They sought refuge in Holland, but the Dutch were too sinful for them. As for religious freedom in the New World, that's a damned lie. They wanted freedom for themselves, not for Quakers or Anabaptists or heaven forbid Catholics. They were horrified by Indian polygamy and polytheism whereas the Indians were astonished at how cruel they were to children and animals. The best that can be said about them is that they prized literacy.

William Bradford was an ancient ancestor of mine.

It pays to be a winner!

Descendant here! Edward Doty was last signature on the Compact. He was the 1st person charged and convicted of a crime for quarrelling with his colleagues. Doty was on my mothers side. Ironically my other ancestor on my Dads side was Job Lane who came over to Masschussets Bay Colony on the 2nd wave. Lane and Doty definately knew each other!

Bradford is Helen Hunt's ancestor...its on Who Do You Are.

Bradford second wife was my Great many times Grandmothers sister. I think geneology is great.

What about the beer for the water was unfit to drink.

Great movie. White European people rock 🪨. Plymouth Rock….

Great documentary.

Great movie. Thanks for sharing. Take care and God Bless.

If there were only 102 passengers, and they arrived in mid November how did people die every day till March? Who wrote this?

"some say .. since we are not in New York" (min. 18.30). This statement is utterly unhistoric. New Netherland only was taken by the English in 1664, and on that occasion named New York, 44 years after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers at Cape Cod.

Because the English pilgrims were the ones with the courage fortitude and perseverance to forge this land into a mighty nation!

Scrooby is only 20 miles away from where i live.... Just seen that William Bradford's from Austerfield,i've been there a few times..That's 17 miles away

Note to the editor of the intro text, need to correct the date to 1620 in the opening sentence (it currently shows as 1650). Thanks.

They were very brave people indeed. Reminds me of the Voortrekkers who came to South Africa.

Great. Thank you.

You need to correct the date in the description.

I was just at the Governor Bradford Inn & restaurant in Provincetown!! Love it there.

I wish the colonists had never treated the native Americans as slaves. Horrible thing to do.

The Native Witch Doctor seemed a bit saucy in this documentary

The Pilgrims were tolerant of other religions (in Plymouth), but as the Puritans took over the Massachusetts Bay, they became intolerant. Hence this is why Roger Williams and his supporters founded the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

It was the beginning of what was inevitable. Evolution.

Why don’t most documentaries about the European immigration to the United States rarely if ever mention that the Spanish were first then the French. They usually just start with the Mayflower of the Pilgrims & Puritans. It’s an Anglo-English narrative. Spain & France were there before England & also can’t forget the Dutch & Swedish also Russia with Alaska.

There were others here before they arrived. Some folks are direct descendants of the Puritans and they believed in literacy for both men and women which was not common back in England. The French were already here and were known to have gotten along better with the Indigenous nations and much of our language is indigenous based. Majority of roads today in Connecticut and the other New England states are the original native trails. Going back to the 1300's over what became Michigan, corresponds with what would become the fight for independence, eventually, with many different wars and conflicts. The Ulster Scots and Germans, all in the Appalachia region had a direct say in the war of Independence. The Dutch were here long before then, in the large NYC and Connecticut region too . Of course, I only barely touched what was happening, including what is now New Brunswick and Canada.

who's that Indian calling a " liar"? he's the liar

Wolf Truchsess von Wetzhausen - Your birthdate infomoration is off by an entire decade. William Bradford, was born in 1590 and lived until 1657. I haven't finished watching this documentary, I'm already wondering what else you got wrong .

Great documentary it’s too bad the Native Americans represented in this film were malcontent. I have several Native American friends that love America and White people.

WE didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.

The only thing that saved us from Calvin and the western world of torture is the separation of Church and State. As a Christian my soul is rocked to the core reflecting upon the cast of characters and their belief systems. So let me get this straight they are going off to the unknown during storm season taking over 3 times as long as an average crossing. All of this a wonderful part of our history.... Yikes, you really can rationalize anything. MarkMannM2

If you are truly interested in REAL history, draw by on this piece. It’s pure fantasy.

Words of the Mayflower Compact> kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pphjmqlqz7fInoE.htmlfeature=shared. The Geneva Bible is also iconic of the Mayflower.

It's a shame that the first premise is so wrong in this story. The founding fathers did NOT want freedom of religion, they wanted everyone to conform to THEIR version of religion.

The narrator says that on the first Christmas there was little celebration because of the sickness. Actually the Pilgrims did not celebrate Christmas.

Jamestown was first and most influential.

Do a search for Mayflower history primary sources. Of Plymouth Plantation (Volume 1 and Volume 2) by William Bradford (written 1630-1651, first published 1854). This is the most complete first-hand history of Plymouth, written by its long-time governor.

This was a good show, but why don't we learn about the other settlements that were here before Plymouth?

I’m English and found it funny that the pilgrims developed American accents on the way over there 🤦‍♂️😂

I am so very thankful to God that the Pilgrims saw the wisdom of establishing Plymouth Colony as a republic instead of a democracy as many of you people continue to call it. I also thank God that the founders of the United States also saw, and followed the same wisdom. I am grateful that you conceded the importance of writing the Mayflower Compact, and successive laws. Writing endures. Memories fail. I thank God for Bradford, Massasoit, Standish, Squanto, saints, strangers, and Wampanoag and the others whose charity allowed Plymouth Colony to thrive.

24:18 pilgrims were the original squatters 😅

and a correction the mayflower landed on plymoth in 1620 not 1650 there is a huge difference of 30yrs please get the history rght and the dates too

The Description says 1650?

Jamestown schooled plymouth. 1607

Chicken pox, measles and mumps are NOT harmless diseases. Where does that guy get that info?

Come on Gil, Get over it. Yes you have cause to be mad but if this series of events had different people from different countries, you probably wouldn't be speaking out today.

EMERSON W BAKER, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY YOU BELIVE FREE THINKERS WOULD NOT BE PALABLE IN TODAYS WORLD? AFTER ALL WE'RE NOT COMMUNIST!

Semi-good factual historical thumbnail summary film, just painfully poor reenactor acting.

These weren't puritans. These are pilgrims. Puritans settled in Massachusetts.

Puritans are pilgrams that broke away. I just looked it up..

After 50 years? I thought they were temporaries?

i used to move furniture for mayflower van lines. where's my reparations 🤷🏻‍♂️

Rights for everyone but that only includes men! Who spoke up for the women?

My sympathy always with the Native American Who r the actual inhabitants n owner of this great N/ S America.....

All due respect to Gill Solomon leader of the Ponkapod but the pilgrims wrote of the first Thanksgiving. Obviously things didn’t work out for Native Americans in the long run. The puritans (pilgrims) were devout Christians who got along (in the beginning) with the Natives. It lasted for almost 50 years.

IN GOD WE TRUST! GOD'S LAND. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND. ST JOHN 3:16! ❤ JESUS IS RETURNING SOON! GOD HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF HIS LAND IN AMERICA, BUT NOT FOR ETERNITY! HALLELUJAH! ❤️✝️❤️

The English constitution was established soon after the Roman legions left. It's principles and traditions were well known and practiced by everyone. When King John failed to uphold his duties under the constitution he was forced to sign a document called The Magna Carta in 1215 which spells out the principles and duties the monarch was required to uphold in return for his station. The English constitution was written before but reiterated in 1215. All laws and statutes padsed since that time had to comply with this foundational agreement.

The bottom line is The native Americans were living good and the Europeans were living on a very thin line when they arrived and just getting by through their own efforts. The Native Americans like any human in this period knew what it was like to go HUNGRY. As a fellow human by NATURE they would help these Europeans. They knew HUNGER. That in itself would by NATURE make them help these other humans in a really tough world. Mean while and for centuries the Europeans would be selling THEIR way of life, "look how well we live compared to You" etc etc. The rest is history we've already lived for better or for worse. There is a lot to be said positive about their way of life at this time. One also has to remember there were approximately only 50,000 Native Americans on the continent. There's 340 million people here now or maybe even more?

This documentary is so full of political correctness that it's sickening. Long live America and all Americans!

Go Sox!

It's funny that the indian suggests that "they lied from the very start". Indians notoriously have no records, so we really cant know anything about that situation other than what was noted by the settlers.

In all reality it was the merchants and traders who did the most to settle here.

When they sign the contract they are forming a corporation, a very American thing to do.

I bet there homes where no where that nice the first couple year's,hey great great great great great grandpa you made it.😊😊😊

These are my ancestors (thousands)but I doubt they will leave my comment up. So if you see this good.

I'm so ashamed of my countrymen who went to the US back then. 😒

William Brewster descendant! 👋

I thought this was “real” history.

I expected “Real History” to be about HISTORY….this is a religious evaluation, not historical.

Today, colonization is happening via the Southern border.

My family is descended from Bradford’s second wife.

Who Ever watched this, if you wanna hear the real Thanksgiving story Rush Limbaugh, may he rest in peace? Look it up on the internet. They had a couple of angry Indians on here. We can't change the past.