Director Robert Harmon’s television film “The Crossing” (2000) features Howard Fast’s screenplay, in turn based on Fast’s novel of the same name. It’s set in 1776, six months after the American colonies declared their independence.
It’s winter. The British and German mercenaries called Hessians have decimated and divided the American Continental Army, which is now fleeing toward the Delaware River. There, Gen. George Washington (Jeff Daniels) takes stock with his officers, Gen. Hugh Mercer (Roger Rees), Alexander Hamilton (Steven McCarthy), and Col. John Glover (Sebastian Roché).
