[6] Through a number of interviews with experts and academics, Monroe Hill unearths the history of the site that contains the last remaining structures of the late 18th century southern plantation.

Featuring extensive documentation, interviews, and footage from D. W. Griffith's America and Orphans of the Storm, the film brings to light an unexplored period of the life of James Monroe.

The director resorts to the backdrop of Colonial Williamsburg in the late 1910s and early 1920s—as seen in Griffith's America—to recreate the experience of Monroe in Charlottesville at the turn of the 18th century: sequences and isolated scenes from Orphans of the Storm will also serve the purpose of illustrating the life of James Monroe from 1794—shortly after his arrival as Minister Plenipotentiary in 1794—until his return to the United States.

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 | School of Education and Human Development (formerly the 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[10] & 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 & Richard Guy Wilson sound mixer Kathleen Mueller executive producers Melissa Thomas-Hunt | Stephen Plaskon | Eduardo Montes-Bradley | silent film advisor David Shepard | Soledad Liendo producer Soledad Liendo writer-director Eduardo Montes-Bradley.

60 minutes | HD | 16:9[11][12] Final credits list a dedication in memory of Kurt Hilburger, fourth-year archeology and anthropology double major who assisted Montes-Bradley’s research, and acted as his personal driver on location in Virginia.

These records were used to corroborate Monroe’s presence in the plantation in the periods between his deployment astute senator in Philadelphia and in Paris as Minister Plenipotentiary.

Monroe Hill also suggests that Thenia was presumably buried in the African American cemetery recently discovered and reconsecrated on grounds at the University of Virginia and that her partner and possible father of her children was the enslaved man known as Peter, the gardener.

The film also explores the period in which James Monroe resigned in Paris as Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States revealing aspects of his relationship with Thomas Paine, Wolfe Tone, and Adrienne de La Fayette.