{"id":951010,"date":"2024-07-04T07:34:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T11:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=951010"},"modified":"2024-07-04T07:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T11:34:54","slug":"the-best-patriotic-movies-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/the-best-patriotic-movies-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Patriotic Movies to Watch this Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Fourth of July is here, and with America\u2019s birthday comes always the need to get in the patriotic spirit. There are many ways to do that of course. Fireworks are forever the go-to event; backyard barbecues and grills with hot dogs and hamburgers is another. But sometimes you might just want a bit of celluloid magic to remind you why you should care in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you\u2019re looking for a comedy or a drama, some \u201880s \u201cUSA, USA\u201d cheese, or a genuine exploration of America\u2019s founding, we\u2019ve got you covered with a list of some of the most patriotic of American movies. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1776: Sit down, John! (1972 Film Version) 720p\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dYDxyIzPe98?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1776-1972\"><strong>1776 (1972)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s begin with the best movie about why today is called \u201cIndependence Day:\u201d <em>1776<\/em>. While there have been other movies about the Second Continental Congress\u2019 travails during those sweltering days in the summer of \u201976, none have truthfully been as entertaining or spirited as this adaptation of the Sherman Edwards musical of the same name. As much a lively play about the battle of egos and ideals, politics and prejudices, that birthed the Declaration of Independence, the 141-minute movie is a political epic wherein characters occasionally burst into witty, joyous song. Anytime Howard Da Silva\u2019s Benjamin Franklin is able to smirk and prance is a particular delight too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifty years on the film has been fairly criticized for distorting the historical record\u2014including by having Thomas Jefferson (Ken Howard) give a far too passionate and misleading speech about the need to abolish slavery despite the fact Jefferson never freed his own enslaved people\u2014but the film still recognizes the Founders not as something greater than deities. Here, as in history, they&#8217;re flawed humans prone to error and misjudgment. They also could bring a conviction and fire that changed the world. And it never burned hotter than when William Daniels\u2019 John Adams refused to sit down!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HAMILTON Disney Movie &quot;Alexander Hamilton&quot; Song Clip\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iXunxTyrpSY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hamilton-2020\"><strong>Hamilton (2020)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While on the subject of Revolutionary musicals, one good high-kick deserves another, and Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/hamilton\/\">Hamilton<\/a><\/em> has plenty of that in its spirited ensemble. A passionate and brilliant exercise in historical anachronism and theatrical artifice, <em>Hamilton <\/em>tells the story of the at onetime most-overlooked \u201cfounding father,\u201d our first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, through the lenses of song, rap, and a zealotry rarely witnessed in either a musical or historical biopic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2020 \u201cfilm\u201d is actually the edited together recordings of several performances with the original Broadway cast of <em>Hamilton <\/em>in 2016, but it does a better job than most big screen adaptations (and all previous stage recordings) of capturing the kineticism of Thomas Kail\u2019s direction. It likewise showcases a brilliant, intentionally color-bending cast that includes a preening performance by David Diggs as Thomas Jefferson and a heartbreaking turn by Leslie Odom Jr. as the opportunistic and self-loathing Aaron Burr. The show has been<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/hamilton-cast-reflect-on-backlash-and-criticism\/\"> criticized by some<\/a> for underplaying Hamilton\u2019s complicity in the slave trade (he did not directly participate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/alexander-hamilton-real-history-slavery\/\">but his father-in-law did<\/a>, and Hamilton\u2019s opinions were more contradictory than the show depicts). Others disparage the very idea of descendants of enslaved people playing the founders. Yet the brilliance of <em>Hamilton <\/em>is it takes the soaring ideals and rhetoric of America\u2019s genesis and reminds us that this legacy is for <em>all <\/em>Americans. It&#8217;s also just a remarkable piece of theatrical craft that can be both hilarious and tragic, sometimes in the same song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Right Stuff - Blu-ray Clip\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hCx8vHpKylU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-right-stuff-1983\"><strong>The Right Stuff (1983)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To jump well ahead in the American story, <em>The Right Stuff <\/em>is a non-singing(!) love letter and dramatization to the beginning of the space race in the 1950s and \u201860s. Director Philip Kaufman adapts a nonfiction book of the same name, and the acerbic yet enthusiastic tone that comes with it courtesy of author Tom Wolfe. With the verve of a jaded modern journalist, but the American pie-shaped excitement of a baby boomer who grew up listening to John Glenn\u2019s report from orbit, <em>The Right Stuff <\/em>depicts the space race as a kind of single-man combat between the East and West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the West\u2019s champions as played by Sam Shepherd, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, and all the rest of <em>The Right Stuff<\/em>\u2019s cast is an all-American band of heroes (and in some cases opportunists) who are shown to happily risk life and limb so we can have bragging rights of conquering the stars first. It\u2019s filled with bravado, derring-do, and an American strain of chutzpah that leaves you smiling ear to ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Razzle Dazzle Scene | Stripes (1981) | Now Playing\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FKrdnPjKHcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-stripes-1981\"><strong>Stripes (1981)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To get fully away from historical biography, Ivan Reitman\u2019s <em>Stripes <\/em>is the kind of breezy and broad comedy America could use more of these days. A self-deprecating lark at the military\u2019s expense\u2014but, you know, <em>respectfully<\/em>\u2014<em>Stripes <\/em>adapts the cynicism and malaise brought on by the Vietnam War and Watergate into a buddy comedy about two slackers (Bill Murray and Harold Ramis) who join the Army for some laughs. And much to the chagrin of their severe drill sergeant (Warren Oates), giggles are had all around when Murray\u2019s private takes over a platoon that includes American heroes like John Candy. (He&#8217;s really Canadian.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A definite side effect of the impact <em>SNL<\/em>\u2019s early years had on American comedy, the film starred Murray at the beginning of his movie star run opposite Ramis, who also co-wrote the script after co-writing and directing Murray in <em>Caddyshack<\/em>. They bring the same smug, shaggy, and maybe even scuzzy energy to the military that could be off-putting if they weren\u2019t so damn funny. And when Murray leads dozens of soldiers in addressing a general with \u201cthat\u2019s a fact, Jack!,\u201d it\u2019s damn funny, indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rocky IV - Hearts on Fire True HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F1gd_9noZMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-rocky-iv-1985\"><strong>Rocky IV (1985)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It might bear repeating that Rocky Balboa did <em>not <\/em>end the Cold War. But <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/rocky-creed-movies-ranked-worst-to-best\/\">Rocky IV<\/a> <\/em>will make you wish he had. The most ludicrous and giggle-inducing of Sylvester Stallone\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/rocky\/\">Rocky flicks<\/a>, <em>Rocky IV<\/em> is also glorified Reagan era propaganda wherein the plucky American underdog goes to Moscow on Christmas Day to virtually behead a Soviet minotaur in an act of single-armed combat. So when America\u2019s hero, our dear Rock, inevitably ends victorious over Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), complete with being wrapped in an American flag cape, it\u2019s as if our champion has bested theirs, signaling capitalism and democracy&#8217;s permanent ascendency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s all so preposterously over-the-top that to the modern eye it\u2019s endearing. This is one of the most \u201880s movies ever, complete with <em>three <\/em>montages set to synthesized MTV bangers with music video inspired editing, plus a bonafide James Brown musical number, and a goddamn talking robot that recognized AI 40 years early as the glorified rich man\u2019s toy it became. Let the jingoism wash over you like a warm blanket, even as you wonder how Rocky, a character once grounded in \u201870s naturalism, got to the point where he&#8217;s a Saturday morning cartoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top Gun: Maverick - Official Trailer (2022) - Paramount Pictures\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qSqVVswa420?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-top-gun-maverick-2022\"><strong>Top Gun: Maverick (2022)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As one of the few sequels to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/top-gun-maverick-review-tom-cruise\/\"> absolutely outclass its predecessor<\/a> by every conceivable measure, <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> adapts one of the most patriotic and highest of high-concept \u201880s blockbusters into a film every bit as sweeping and misty-eyed as its predecessor\u2014but now in a genuinely compelling adventure about honor, sacrifice, and duty. Easily the best \u201clegacy sequel\u201d we\u2019ve had to date, <em>Maverick<\/em> sees Tom Cruise return to his most popular role in order to pass the mantle\u2026 to himself! While there is a host of great millennial talent in <em>Maverick<\/em>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/hit-man-review-watch-glen-powell-movie-stardom\/\">star-on-the-rise Glen Powell<\/a>, this is still Cruise\u2019s show, and the film becomes about how Maverick\/Cruise can never stay grounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead <em>Top Gun: Maverick <\/em>soars through the wide blue yonder with majestic images of Navy jets going 3Gs with actual actors like Cruise, Powell, and Miles Teller in the cockpits and caught losing consciousness on IMAX lenses. Their mission is a combination of the original 1986 <em>Top Gun<\/em> and George Lucas\u2019 first <em>Star Wars <\/em>where Cruise must lead a bunch of young guns on a seeming suicide mission where they will fly their jets through an unnamed enemy\u2019s canyon (or trench) to make the impossible shot. The story provides a wonderful ticking clock mechanism that makes all the sunset motorcycle rides, shirtless beachside sporting events, and Jerry Lee Lewis singalongs a lot more poignant and effective. Cruise really might be the last old school movie star and he can even get all Americans on their feet for this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lincoln &quot;Now&quot; scene\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1qjtugr2618?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lincoln-2012\"><strong>Lincoln (2012)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For those looking for a different era of trying times that try men\u2019s souls in American history, Steven Spielberg\u2019s <em>Lincoln <\/em>has become strangely underrated in the decade-plus since its release. It\u2019s still recognized for featuring a titanic performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, who won an Oscar for his efforts. And Day-Lewis is indeed astonishing in a turn that surpasses the mere gimmickry of prosthetic makeup; he in fact becomes as entirely ingratiating and disarming as a folksy Indianan lawyer with the flair of a raconteur. The actor even excavated Lincoln\u2019s reportedly high-pitched voice and laugh that was so much remarked upon in his lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But beyond a great approximation of the United States\u2019 greatest president, <em>Lincoln <\/em>has the good grace to take Honest Abe off his marble pedestal and place him in the muck and sludge of 1860s America. Shrewdly electing to study a mere handful of weeks in the 16th president\u2019s life, as opposed to trying to cram it all in, the movie offers insight into how Lincoln beguiled, cajoled, and, when necessary, strong-armed his way into making a more perfect Union\u2014in this case by rushing the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which constitutionally banned slavery once and for all, before the Civil War ended. It\u2019s a movie about political process and how sausage gets made; something that sounds dry but in the hands of a chef determined to leave a better legacy for generations to come, turns out to be a gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Glory (8\/8) Movie CLIP - Breaching Fort Wagner (1989) HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q7qwqVbZSqE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-glory-1989\"><strong>Glory (1989)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While on the subject of the Civil War,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/culture\/the-12-best-civil-war-movies\/\"> there has been no finer movie<\/a> on the national tragedy than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/glory-and-the-legacy-of-the-most-graceful-civil-war-movie\/\">Edward Zwick\u2019s <em>Glory<\/em><\/a>. The film takes its historical liberties too, but it also does a better job than any other Hollywood film at bluntly addressing the root cause of a war that left half a million Americans dead. A picture about the slavery of it all, the beauty of <em>Glory <\/em>is that by telling the oft-ignored (at least in white textbooks) story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, <em>Glory <\/em>hones in on a moment Lincoln Kirstein famously called \u201cone gallant rush.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 54th were sent on a veritable suicide mission when they were asked to charge Fort Wagner. They indeed lost over half their numbers, and the fort was never taken during the war. But when told in its full context, the sacrifices of the first Black regiment in U.S. history is all the more remarkable given how strongly the odds were stacked against them. Making that rush transformed the Union\u2019s perception of Black soldiers and led to the opportunity of hundreds of thousands more being recruited. The film captures this with elegance and grace, and a stirring cast that includes Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, and Andr\u00e9 Braugher. It also features one of composer James Horner\u2019s most magnificent and heartbreaking scores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Will Not Yield! - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (7\/8) Movie CLIP (1939) HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zPv0S1-ETdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mr-smith-goes-to-washington-1939\"><strong>Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing beats a classic, and Frank Capra\u2019s <em>Mr. Smith Goes to Washington <\/em>is one of the all-time classics. A story of a small-town country bumpkin (a perfect James Stewart) who is appointed to the U.S. Senate and faces the seduction of money and corruption, including in the hands of his idol and mentor (Claude Rains), the film is beloved for its stirring climax where Mr. Smith filibusters on the Senate floor until Rains\u2019 tainted legislator admits his sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, the film\u2019s depiction of a jaded Beltway establishment and corrosive influences in our government made <em>Mr. Smith <\/em>be viewed as a gamble by the studio and as potentially dangerous by the censors. Yet the film\u2019s wholesome insistence on the restoration of American civics and ideals is so endearing that the movie was banned in Nazi Germany and communist states as being dangerous. In reality, it\u2019s just an affecting drama about the way government <em>should <\/em>work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yankee Doodle Dandy - Jimmy Cagney\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N8wxb-wwQnA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-yankee-doodle-dandy-1942\"><strong>Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After watching Michael Curtiz\u2019s toe-tapping, heart-on-its-sleeve approximation of his life, the real George M. Cohan said the movie was so swell he wished he lived a life like that! So as an obviously loose interpretation of the real Cohan\u2019s travails, <em>Yankee Doodle Dandy <\/em>is one of the finest pieces of World War II patriotism (and some might say propaganda) ever produced in Hollywood. Yet it does accurately capture that Cohan was the song and dance man who wrote hits like \u201cYankee Doodle Dandy,\u201d \u201cGive My Regards to Broadway,\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re a Grand Old Flag,\u201d \u201cOver There,\u201d and any number of other patriotic ditties that became turn-of-the-century anthems, all the way into World War I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything else about the movie is a fabrication, but what is real is James Cagney\u2019s one-of-a-kind dance moves and enthusiasm at playing the antithesis of his tough guy gangster image. Embracing the hoofer moves he picked up on the Vaudeville stage decades earlier, Cagney is sprightly and irresistible as Cohan while skipping across the screen. He\u2019ll even get you to sing along to some of the most flag-waving hits of more than a hundred years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Grapes of Wrath: Tom Joad will be Everywhere (20th Century Fox) 1940\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4pu0hMs4unk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-grapes-of-wrath-1940\"><strong>The Grapes of Wrath (1940)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On the flip side of Golden Age Hollywood\u2019s patriotic optimism in <em>Mr. Smith <\/em>and <em>Yankee Doodle <\/em>is John Ford\u2019s far more sober-eyed adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel, <em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em>. Released around the same time as the two above films, and from a noted Hollywood conservative who made John Wayne an icon, <em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em>\u2019s unblinking honesty about the horrors of the Great Depression is all the more remarkably bold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film follows the Joad family, a multigenerational clan of farmers who are forced to abandon their ancestral home in dust-ridden Oklahoma in order to find a salvation that never really comes in California. It is at times bleak, and yet the film and star Henry Fonda\u2019s dogged resilience makes for a strangely affecting and reassuring antithesis to many of the other films on this list. <em>The Grapes of Wrath <\/em>essays one of the grimmest chapters in American history and does not shy away from the generation(s) left behind. But it approaches them with warmth, empathy, and an optimism of spirit that feels wholly American and comforting to a country facing its own challenging times 90 years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Independence Day (4\/5) Movie CLIP - The President&#039;s Speech (1996) HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"js-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9t1IK_9apWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-independence-day-1996\"><strong>Independence Day (1996)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, we offer some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/independence-day\/\">good old-fashioned American escapism<\/a> for those who just want to find a little of that old school \u201890s confidence and buoyancy. 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