Monroe Hill is a documentary film by Eduardo Montes-Bradley made possible, through an award from the Jefferson Trust. The film traces the roots, and historical context, of James Monroe's first farm in Albemarle County and its transformation over three decades until the laying of the cornerstone at the University of Virginia on October 6, 1817.  Available on Kanopy Streaming. ​The film unearths the site's history, which contains the last remaining structures of the late 18th-century southern plantation. These surviving structures are silent witnesses to Monroe's struggle as a farmer and a politician from 1789 through 1817. The film includes a chapter of James Monroe's life as Minister to France and his relationship with Thomas Paine, Tom Wolfe, Adrienne de La Fayette, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.​ HD | 60 minutes

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HERITAGE FILM PROJECT presents MONROE HILL a film by Eduardo MONTES-BRADLEY

made possible through an award from The Jefferson Trust in collaboration with Brown Residential College

Curry School of Education | Ash Lawn-Highland with the support of the Office of the Provost & Vice Provost of the Arts

The Papers of James Monroe | Washington Papers | The James Monroe Museum and Library ] The Presidential Precinct

Historical consultant Dan Preston additional consultants William Ferraro & Scott Harris

featuring interviews with Dan PRESTON Scott HARRIS Sara BON-HARPER Benjamin FORD

Kat IMHOFF William FERRARO Louis NELSON Kyle EDWARDS Carl O. TRINDLE Erik MIDELFORT

Anne McKEITHEN and Richard Guy WILSON sound mixer Kathleen MUELLER 

executive producers Melissa THOMAS-HUNT Stephen PLASKON and Eduardo MONTES-BRADLEY 

silent film advisor David SHEPARD producer Soledad LIENDO written and directed by Eduardo MONTES-BRADLEY