Top 10 Movies to Watch in Honor of Presidents Day

REAGAN

REAGAN stars Dennis Quaid as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. It covers Reagan’s life from his childhood to his death. There’s a strong focus throughout the movie on Reagan’s lifelong fight against communism. The movie relates Reagan’s battle…

LINCOLN

Steven Spielberg’s LINCOLN focuses on President Lincoln’s efforts in January 1865 to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, which outlawed slavery in the United States and its territories. Now that victory in the Civil War is near, Lincoln feels slavery will never be abolished…

LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER

LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER is an elegant and compelling but fictionalized historical drama about Eugene Allen, the longest-serving black butler in White House history, and the historic changes he saw. The movie changes Allen’s name to Cecil Gaines to give it more…

AIR FORCE ONE

In AIR FORCE ONE, the President of the United States, James Marshall (Harrison Ford), must personally combat a group of Russian terrorists who hijack Air Force One. Faking his own escape in Air Force One’s escape pod, President James Marshall personally takes…

IN THE LINE OF FIRE

HACKSAW RIDGE

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…

THE PATRIOT

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…

JOHN ADAMS

JOHN ADAMS is the acclaimed HBO TV miniseries on one of America’s founding fathers, and the second president of the United States. The first part opens in 1770 with Adams defending some of the British troops who fired upon citizens during the…

NATIONAL TREASURE: THE BOOK OF SECRETS

NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS stars Nicolas Cage as Benjamin Gates, the treasure-hunting historian. Ben and his father, Patrick, learn that their ancestor, Thomas Gates, may have been involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. To clear their ancestor’s name, they try…

THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT

THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT, Tyler Perry’s war drama, is about the only U.S. Black Women’s Auxiliary Battalion to serve on foreign soil during World War II. Lena Derriecott is a grieving young black woman who loses her young Jewish boyfriend in the…