The Fourth of July is great. We as Americans can celebrate our freedom, our culture, and our country. But it also occurs in July which can be quite the scorcher in the South where we live. Sometimes it is not feasible to go out and celebrate until the sun starts heading down. With that in mind whether you have friends over or want to veg out until the fireworks, we are doing a rundown of our top 5 favorite movies or series to make you go USA! USA!
Kmac’s Number 5: Friday Night Lights
Movie or television series, pick the tv series, there are few things more heartwarmingly American than High School football. If you have ever been on a field for the Star Spangle Banner this will tug at your patriotic tear ducts.
Kmac’s Number 4: Independence Day
This action movie brings together the military and computer nerds together to take down an alien force. More than just being a movie about coming together as America it is about coming together as humanity.
Kmac’s Number 3: Band of Brothers
This mini series may be too much for one day unless you marathon but you can still watch one or two as a reminder of all the sacrifice our armed service men have made for us.
Kmac’s Number 2: Pocahontas
Jamestown was the earliest British Settlement that would last and mark the beginning
of the British Colonies that would form the basis of our nation. Though a cartoon this movie makes me take a pause for the beginnings of the melting pot that while not fair or equitable in historical execution, alludes to the concept of a nation of different people coming together.
Kmac’s Number 1: Apollo 13
This is something I’m passionate about so buckle in for take off. When I was growing up there was nothing more engrossing and inspiring than our space program, this a good thirty years after we first landed on the moon. I debated including the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, or the movie The Right Stuff about the Mercury missions as examples but I settled on the movie I begged my parents to see, the one I watched on a field trip while playing Houston,, and the one that proves duct tape and ingenuity can save the day. This is a movie about a failure of mission but a triumph in the human spirit. For me I find that wars have brought out some of the best in our citizens but it was exploration and innovation that truly captured me. I hope children in the future see these movies and are inspired to seek even farther. If you want one movie to make you feel proud to be an American then all I have to say is.. Go Flight... Go Flight... Apollo 13 You Are Clear For Launch.
Jmac’s Number 5: Forrest Gump
A movie that deals with so many issues in American history over the past half century, with an amazing soundtrack, and beautiful shots of this great country.
Jmac’s Number 4: Pearl Harbor
We all know the story or at least should, a story that shows the strength of American resolve to strike back at the Empire of Japan, even if it was only a pinprick.
Jmac’s Number 3: Independence Day
We've all seen it, and while not just America fighting back against alien invaders, it has one of the most inspirational speeches about Independence Day of any movie.
Jmac’s Number 2: The Patriot
One of the better movie about the American Revolution, that shows how divided this country is, both then and now. Ending with the Battle of Cowpens, a sometimes graphically violent movie, but one that portrays the horrors of a revolutionary battlefield.
Jmac’s Number 1: An American Tale: Fievel Goes West
A movie that a lot of people have not seen, that tells the tale of a little Jewish mouse that moves west, along with many other ethnicities in search of a better life, that only the American west could promise.
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