Top Ten Movies to Honor Memorial Day
Memorial Day is always a 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…
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 →WE WERE SOLDIERS is the first Vietnam movie to really honor the men who gave their lives in that difficult conflict. Mel Gibson plays Col. Hal Moore, a devout Roman Catholic Christian with a Methodist wife and a gaggle of children. In…
Read the Full Review →AMERICAN SNIPER tells the story of Chris Kyle, the most successful sniper in U.S. military history. Chris grew up to become an expert marksman and a rough rodeo cowboy with strong Christian faith. After marrying his wife, a crisis happens in the…
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 →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 →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…
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