Film · 1960 · Films · 1960s
The Alamo
Scored from 122 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
In 1836, a small band of Texan volunteers led by Colonel William Travis, Jim Bowie, and frontiersman Davy Crockett occupy the Alamo mission in San Antonio, determined to delay the advancing army of Mexican General Santa Anna long enough for Sam Houston to raise a Texan force. Over thirteen days of siege, the outnumbered defenders prepare for an inevitable final assault.
The Alamo (1960) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, drama and history genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 122 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 126 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Alamo lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 122.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
