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Here’s Your Movie Guide For Hosting The Ultimate America 250 Film Fest

What better way to celebrate Independence Day than with American stories featuring the good, true, and beautiful — and the occasional epic chase scene?

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Millions of Americans spanning 50 states are preparing to spend one of the best weekends in history celebrating the best country in history. And nothing goes better with freedom, good food, and blowing things up than a late-night patriotic film fest with family and friends.

Whether you’re planning to fashion a makeshift drive-in movie screen in your backyard with bed sheets and a projector or gather in the living room because you can’t sleep over the sound of your neighbors’ semiquincentennial celebrations, here is your ultimate guide to distinctly American movies the whole family can enjoy for the 250th. (Obviously, the mandate to rewatch The Patriot and HBO’s John Adams miniseries is already implied.)

Patriotism, traditional roles of the two sexes, clean comedy, chivalry, family, happy endings: Old movies from the American golden age not only have a way of inspiring me to embrace what is today too widely considered old-fashioned, but also help build up an intolerance for streaming services and AI slop. What better way to celebrate Independence Day than by observing and conserving American stories featuring the good, true, and beautiful (that is, actually artistic cinematography)?

Make sure you have the tissues for this one. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) follows a group of WWII veterans who return home from fighting overseas and must readjust to family and civilian life. The film portrays the hardships and permanent wounds faced by many veterans upon their return to the home front.

Holiday Inn (1942), starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, already made it into my Christmas-themed movie guide, but when the plot of a........

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