The 100 Best Conservative Movies

MOVIES are the leading art form of our popular culture, with a unique ability to move and enlighten a mass audience. As we near the end of the twentieth century, it is time to honor the great conservative movies of yesterday and today: movies about God and country, tradition and family, freedom and resistance to tyranny, individual achievement and the American Dream; movies that celebrate the creativity of business achievement, depict the evils of Communism and collectivism, and reveal the true nature of revolution.

Movies mirror society. Many of the great conservative films were produced during Hollywood’s Golden Age of the Thirties and Forties, when the ideals of Western civilization were almost universally accepted. By the Seventies, alas, the counterculture was being refleeted in the new Hollywood’s nihilistic themes and chaotic styles.

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Spencer Warren

MOVIES are the leading art form of our popular culture, with a unique ability to move and enlighten a mass audience. As we near the end of the twentieth century, it is time to honor the great conservative movies of yesterday and today: movies about God and country, tradition and family, freedom and resistance to tyranny, individual achievement and the American Dream; movies that celebrate the creativity of business achievement, depict the evils of Communism and collectivism, and reveal the true nature of revolution.

Movies mirror society. Many of the great conservative films were produced during Hollywood’s Golden Age of the Thirties and Forties, when the ideals of Western civilization were almost universally accepted. By the Seventies, alas, the counterculture was being refleeted in the new Hollywood’s nihilistic themes and chaotic styles.