If you think you know who George Washington was, think again. Instead of the man covered with pigeons in the Boston Public Garden, THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T BE KING gives us a sense of the very real human being behind the legend. The story focuses on the adult Washington, from the young surveyor who longed for a title and position in colonial Virginia society through the revolutionary general who declined a kingship and military rule. The tone is more akin to a pre-election biography of a candidate in exposing his strengths and weaknesses. They accomplish this through interviews, pictures and the daring step of creating fake documentary footage as is there were newsreel cameramen around in 1776. The technique is a dangerous one: we wouldn't accept actors pretending to be Washington or one of his contemporaies speaking to an interviewer. Instead, it is used to convey atmosphere, so we get some idea of what colonial soldiers marching off to war look like, or the view of a fort before an attack.