Top 10 Movies to Honor Memorial Day
Memorial Day is always a grim reminder of the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect our country’s freedom. Instill patriotism into your family by viewing one of these movies as part of your Memorial Day weekend.
Some of these recent movies contain strong subject matter, so caution or even extreme caution is warranted, even for older teenagers and adults…
SERGEANT YORK stars Gary Cooper as Alvin York, a good-hearted, but hard drinking farmer in the Tennessee hills. His claim to fame is his astounding marksmanship. On his way to kill someone who cheated him, lightning knocks him off his horse and…
Read the Full Review →THE PATRIOT stars Mel Gibson as a family man named Benjamin Mark, who wrestles with his desire for revenge and the just cause of the American War for Independence in the late 1700s. The cruel British Colonel Tavington, played impeccably by Jason…
Read the Full Review →DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK is a tremendous movie about the American Revolution as experienced on the frontier. Henry Fonda stars as Gilbert Martin and Claudette Colbert stars as his wife Lana. They are peacefully establishing their farm on the American frontier when…
Read the Full Review →Ron Maxwell's epic film GETTYSBURG, based on Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE KILLER ANGELS, dramatically depicts the three most courageous days in American history when North and South were arrayed against each other in the decisive battle fought on the Gettysburg,…
Read the Full Review →HACKSAW RIDGE is a great, powerful, emotive Christian war movie. Andrew Garfield stars as Desmond Doss. Desmond’s father is an abusive alcoholic because of the terrible things he experienced during World War I. When World War II breaks out, Desmond and his…
Read the Full Review →Led by Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough and James Garner, THE GREAT ESCAPE follows Allied inmates during World War II trying to escape from a new POW camp run by evil German National Socialist soldiers. Inspired by a true story, the Nazis keep…
Read the Full Review →UNBROKEN: PATH TO REDEMPTION follows Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini after his return from imprisonment in Japan during World War II. PATH TO REDEMPTION picks up where Angelina Jolie’s 2014 movie UNBROKEN ends. Zamperini’s assimilation to civilian life is filled with addiction, sadness…
Read the Full Review →THE LONG ROAD HOME is a dramatic TV miniseries from the National Geographic Channel. It follows American forces in Sadr, Iraq in 2004 who are ambushed by Islamic militants and face extreme odds to survive. The miniseries looks at the events from…
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