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    100 Film Classics

    100 Film Classics

    By Robert James Bidinotto
    Categories: Commentary

    Integrity

    A Man for All Seasons (1966)
    The Fountainhead (1949)
    Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
    High Noon (1952)
    Chariots of Fire (1981)
    On the Waterfront (1954)
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

    The Spirit of America

    Boom Town (1940) 
    Mrs. Parkington (1944)
    Cash McCall (1960)
    Field of Dreams (1989)
    Sergeant York (1941)
    A League of Their Own (1992)
    Singin' in the Rain (1952)
    The Music Man (1962)
    Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
    Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 

    Redemption

    The Natural (1984)
    The Four Feathers (1939)
    Shane (1953)
    Good Will Hunting (1997)
    Rocky (1976)
    The Verdict (1982)
    The Rookie (2002)
     

    Independent Men 

    Hombre (1967) 
    Shenandoah (1965)
    The Edge (1997)
    The Hunt for Red October (1990) 
    Gattaca (1997)
    Bronco Billy (1980)
    Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
    The Naked Jungle (1954)
     

    Great Moral Conflicts

    The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 
    Gone with the Wind (1939)
    Hamlet (1948) 
    Schindler's List (1993)
    12 Angry Men (1957)
    Ransom! (1956)
     

    Irrepressible Courage

    Zulu(1964) 
    The Alamo (1960)
    Life Is Beautiful (1998)
    Glory (1989) 
    Mrs. Miniver (1942)
    The Great Escape (1963)
    Gunga Din (1939)
    The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
     

    Independent Women

    Funny Girl (1968)
    Dangerous Beauty (1998)
    Auntie Mame (1958)
    The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
    Little Women (1933)
    Christopher Strong (1933)
    The Sound of Music (1965) 
    Sense and Sensibility (1995) 
    Elizabeth R (1971, TV miniseries)
    Yentl (1983)
    Queen Christina (1933)
     

    Justice 

    The Count of Monte Cristo (1974)
    Death Wish (1974)
    Dirty Harry (1971)
    Keeper of the Flame (1942)
    Fury (1936)
    Les Misérables (1935)
    The Fugitive (1993)
    The Winslow Boy (1948)
    The Untouchables (1987)
    No Name on the Bullet (1959)
    High Plains Drifter (1973)
    Pale Rider (1985)
    Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
     

    Celebrating the Mind 

    Things to Come (1936)
    October Sky (1999)
    Apollo 13 (1995) 
    Inherit the Wind (1960)
    The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
    Lean on Me (1989)
    The Miracle Worker (1962)
     

    Human Freedom

    1776 (1972)
    Roots (1977, TV miniseries)
    Braveheart (1995)
    Spartacus (1960)
    The Patriot (2000)
     

    Grand Passions

    Camille (1936)
    Camelot (1967)
    Casablanca (1942)
    Romeo and Juliet (1968)
    West Side Story (1961)
    Love Letters (1945)
    The Lion in Winter (1968)
    The Way We Were (1973)
    Jane Eyre(1944)
    Titanic (1997)
    Somewhere in Time (1980)
    Ghost (1990)
    The English Patient (1996)
    Stealing Heaven (1988)
    Robin and Marian (1976)
    We the Living (1942)
    Wuthering Heights (1939)
    Truly Madly Deeply (1991)
     
    This article was originally published in the November 2003 issue of Navigator magazine, The Atlas Society precursor to The New Individualist.
     

     

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