Top 10 Movies That Honor Great Americans
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The following 10 movies honor the lives, struggles and achievements of great Americans. Several of them are more fictionalized than the others, but all are worthwhile movies for media-wise American moviegoers.


YOUNG MR. LINCOLN
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+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.


SERGEANT YORK
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+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.


A MAN CALLED PETER
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+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.


JOHN ADAMS
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-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.


GETTYSBURG
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-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.


42
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-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.


YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
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+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)


THE BLIND SIDE
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-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.


1776
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+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
The idea sounds atrocious, but a superb cast, helped along by a wonderful score with inspiring lyrics, pulls off this delightful, sometimes heartbreaking and often funny musical about the debates, the writing and the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The movie is also a love letter to the joys and strengths of traditional marriage. The political issues portrayed in this patriotic movie are still very much with us today. Best of all, perhaps, the movie presents a poignant, positive view of the American military, including its citizen soldiers, led by the greatest citizen soldier of them all, General George Washington.
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