Top Ten Movies That Honor Veterans
Also, consider watching: THE PURPLE HEART, WINGS, WHERE EAGLES DARE, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, THE GREAT ESCAPE, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, STALAG 17, U-571, and GODS AND GENERALS.
Top Ten Movies That Honor Veterans
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…
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UNBROKEN
UNBROKEN is an immensely powerful biographical movie about the life of Louis Zamperini, who became a famous evangelist. The son of Italian immigrants, Louie goes from being a mischievous young boy to an Olympic runner at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. When World…
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1917
1917 is a powerful, patriotic, moral war movie set at the western front in France and Belgium during World War I. A British commander sends two soldiers, Blake and Schofield, across No Man’s Land through bombed-out areas to warn 1600 British troops…
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SERGEANT YORK
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…
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TOP GUN: MAVERICK
TOP GUN: MAVERICK is a sequel to the popular 1986 hit starring Tom Cruise. Cruise plays Pete “Maverick” Mitchell who after 30 years as a fighter pilot is now a test pilot. After he crashes a supersonic jet, Maverick is sent to…
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GETTYSBURG
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,…
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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…
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THE LONG ROAD HOME
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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GREYHOUND
GREYHOUND is a war movie starring Tom Hanks as Ernest Krause, the first-time American captain of a lead battleship destroyer protecting a convoy of merchant ships and troop ships heading for England in February 1942 during World War II. For 50 hours,…
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