Young Conservatives (YAF) Movie Recommendations

Young Conservatives ' Picks

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A Canterbury Tale (1949)	A Christmas Carol (1984)	Gods and Generals (2003)
Set in wartime Britain, A Canterbury Tale begins with rural justice of the peace Eric Portman adopting a "lock up your daughters"	Get the royal treatment here with wonderful and authentic Bristish performances that truly inspire and deliver a truly heartwarming experience	Gods and Generals focuses on the early military encounters between the North and South during the Civil War recreating numerous battle scenes.
A Man for All Seasons	A Midnight Clear (1992)	The Great Escape
noted for its conservatism concerning Sir Thomas More's...Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives	the story of a group of American Soldiers who are entrenched behind enemy lines in war torn Germany. Read Full Review Here!	Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives
A Tale of Two Cities	Air Force One	Henry V
IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES...IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES Read Full Review Here!	In a world of terrorism, as the USA president, he takes a bold stand against this evil and as a consequence terrorists highjack Air Force One Read Full Review Here!	Shakespeare's homage to the English king who united France and England. Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives
Animal Farm (1999)	Apollo 13 (1995)	The Hunt for Red October
Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives	based on the true story of the astronauts that flew a mission to the moon, the film tells of the disaster that almost caused these three men to be forever lost. Read Full Review Here!	CIA analyst Jack Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Read Full Review Here!
Armageddon (1995)	Band of Brothers	Independence Day (1996)
United States one more time saves the world from meteor that threatens to destroy the human race Read Full Review Here!	With an obvious reverence for its subject, it follows Easy Company from boot camp through many Read Full Review Here!	a group of humans attempt to save the earth from total destruction by aliens and a giant spacecraft. Read Full Review Here!
Battle of the Bulge (1965)		Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Many find it to tell a compelling tale that is true in spirit if not in fact...Read Full Review Here!		takes place when Indy is a young teenager on a boy scout outing with his troops. They come across a...Read Full Review Here!
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)	Black Hawk Down (2002)	It's a Wonderful Life (1947)
Navy pilot who's shot down in enemy territory in Southern Europe. Read Full Review Here!	Read Full Review Here!	staring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, in this amazing film. Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives
The Black Stallion (1979)	Bobby Jones - Jim Caviezel	King of the Hill
Read Full Review Here!	first amateur to win the British Amateur, the British Open, the U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur; all major golf championships...Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives	Write a review
Braveheart (1995)	Brazil (1985)	Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
a real-life thirteenth century Scottish hero who sought to free his people from the oppression of the English...Read Full Review Here!		Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is a successful ad man, a workaholic who is at the peak of...Read Full Review Here!
The Bridge On the River Kwai	Bringing Up Baby (1938)	The Last Supper (1996)
an exciting film that reminds us of those brave men who sacrificed so much to defend the freedoms of this nation taking place during WWII...Read Full Review Here!	Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant deliver a great performance within a hilarious script...Read Full Review Here!	is about five graduate students who are radical members of the liberal left, anti- conservative....Read Full Review Here!
Casablanca	Charade (1963)	Little Women
Casablanca as all of us know is Humphrey Bogart's finest performance; while the film clearly portrays the greatness and virtues of America...Read Full Review Here!	Charade is a stylish comedy-thriller; Peter Joshua meets Reggie Lampert in Paris and offers help when she discovers her husband has been murdered... Read Full Review Here!	The book has come alive in this 1994 classic movie about four sisters living in cold and poor times during the civil war. ...Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives
Chariots of Fire (1981)	Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)	The Longest Day (1962)
based on a true story, internationally acclaimed Oscar-winning drama of two different men who compete against each other as runners in the Paris Olympics of 1924... Read Full Review Here!	a fresh and hilarious movie and among the best that Hollywood ever produced. The film is based on Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey autobiographical novel...Read Full Review Here!	Write a review
Clear and Present Danger (1994)	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Ryan is assigned to an anti-drug investigation and finds himself fighting drug lords as well as government corruption... Read Full Review Here!	is sentenced to a stretch on a chain gang after having been arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While in prison he figures out a way to get the work done in half the usual time... Read Full Review Here!	As more new characters of middle earth are introduced and more of the story is unfolded...Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives
The Crucible (1996)	DC 9/11: Time of Crisis - DC 911	The Man from Snowy River (1982)
supposed to play as a warning against the dangers of political and religious extremism but mostly it seek to warn against communism... Read Full Review Here!	Time of Crisis made-for-cable docudrama recreates the events following the devastating terrorist attack on New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001... Young Conservatives,  Read Full Review Here!	After Jim Craig (Tom Burlington) is pushed off his land when his father is killed in a fatal accident, and no longer... Read Full Review Here!
Disclosure (1994)	Dr. Zhivago (1965)	The Matrix (1999)
In Disclosure Michael Douglas plays Tom Sanders, an executive at DigiCom who finds himself in a sexual harassment lawsuit against his boss, Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore)... Read Full Review Here!	This visually rich film plunges the viewer into the totally different, exciting, and dangerous world of the early twentieth century...Read Full Review Here!	Write a review
Enemy at the Gates (2001)	Enemy of the State (1998)	Minority Report (2002)
battle of Stalingrad which marked the defeat of Germans by Russians. The film though, turns it attention on on the rivalry between...Read Full Review Here!	a man (played by Will Smith) accidentally caught up in political corruption stunt. After a U.S. Senator is murdered, the film portrays some government officials trying to ...Read Full Review Here!	Sci- Fi, Mystery thriller takes place in Washington D.C. the year of 2054 at an age of advanced technology where the government has now implemented a way .... Read Full Review Here!
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)	The Family Man (2000)	Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
story of alien coming to earth. Elliot, a young boy living with his single mother often seems lonely, kind of lost in the world until one day ... Read Full Review Here!	a workaholic bachelor who gets to see what his life could have been had he stayed with his old sweetheart Kate 13 years earlier. He then realizes that he had made the wrong choice... Read Full Review Here!	tells a story of a single mother with a 6 year old daughter who doesn't believe in santa clause...Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives
Far and Away (1992)	Finding Nemo	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
an Irish tenant farmer who recently lost both his father and his home to the agents of his mean landlord. As always ... Read Full Review Here!	takes place in Australia's Great Barrier Reef and a Sydney dentist's aquarium. After a human diver scoops up Nemo, his father Marlin in company of his friend Dory who has short-term memory... Read Full Review Here!	a young innocent enthusiast for America...Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives
Fort Apache (1948)	The Fountainhead (1949)	Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Read Full Review Here!	Instead of compromising his ideals, Roark takes menial work as a quarryman to help him finance his projects.... Read Full Review Here!	Her plight in Iran, Staring Sally Field as an American wife married to an Iranian doctor. Moody decides to take his... Read Full Review Here!
Gallipoli (1981)	Gladiator (2000)	Pearl Harbor (2001)
The story of two idealistic young friends, Frank (Gibson) and Archy (Mark Lee), who join the Australian army during World War I and fight the doomed Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey... Read Full Review Here!	a man in ancient Rome who is robbed of his earned placed as Marcus Aurelius' (Richard Harris) successor by the emperor's son. This frivolous man is Commodus ... Read Full Review Here!	Write a review
The Godfather Trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990)		The Patriot (2000)
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Gone With the Wind (1939)	Patriot Games (1992)	Patton (1970)
American epic and a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Recommended for young conservatives	Sequel that by no means is common but brilliant! Staring Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan	Write a review
Harry's War (1981)	Pearl Harbor	Pelican Brief (1993)
the story of Harry Johnson and what he faces after his aunt dies and he inherits her ongoing battle with the Internal Revenue Service. Read Full Review Here!	a story of two farm boys growing up together.  Read Full Review Here!	a University law student finds herself a target for assassination on the grounds of a brief she wrote for school. Read Full Review Here!
High Noon (1952)	Phone Booth	Prince of Egypt (1998)
as retiring Marshall Will Kane, who is about to go on his his honeymoon with his new Quaker bride, Amy...Read Full Review Here!	Write a review	Write a review
In the Face of Evil (2004)	The Princess Bride (1987)	Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
a two time award winner in 2004, is a documentary about the 40th president of the united States. Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives	Grandpa comes to visit his sick grandson who is tucked up in bed with tv and video games, his grandfather pulls out a book. Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives	Write a review
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	Red Dawn (1984)	Red Corner (1997)
the first of the Indiana Jones series and the movie that threw Harrison Ford in the lime light of Hollywood....Read Full Review Here!	a Colorado raised high school kids who witness Soviet and Cuban attacks on their school ground. Read Full Review Here!	Write a review
Into the West (1993)	The Right Stuff (1983)	The Rookie (2002)
Write a review	Write a review	His dream was to have a successful career in major league baseball. He was disappointed 12 years earlier... Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives
Key Largo (1948)	Rudy (1993)	Saving Private Ryan (1999)
Key Largo is a story about Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), an war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida to meet Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), the widow...Read Full Review Here!	Loving Football but being too short and to small to ever become a star... Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives	Write a review
Knute Rockne, All American (1940)	The Secret of Roan Inish (1995)	Sergeant York (1941)
Write a review	Between land and sea there is a place where The Secret of Roan Inish dewls. Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives	He was a great and precise shooter, but a drinker and a fighter. Alvin eventually came to know his Lord, which transformed his life, while World War I... Read Full Review Here!
The Last of the Mohicans	Shane (1953)	Shenandoah (1965)
European-born adopted son of Mohican scout Chingachgook, Hawkeye and his adopted brother who join a group of British ... Read Full Review Here!	Gunfighter Shane arrives on his horse at a homesteaders place who is defending his land from an intimidating cattleman Ryker... Read Full Review Here!	Write a review
Lean on Me (1989)	Signs (2002)	Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Write a review	One early morning when Pastor Graham Hess (Gibson) is awaken by his children and brother Merrill (Phoenix) staring into the far off cornfield... Read Full Review Here!	The Silent films are being rejected as the the new "Talkies" are now first time introduced and hitting the box office with such a success that threatens... Read Full Review Here!
Life with Father	Star Trek: First Contact (1996)	Star Wars (1977, 1980, 1983, 1999, 2002)
an American movie classic. Written in reminiscence of Clarence Day Jr. about his father Mr. Day, and brought to the screen in such a delightful way! This film is full of classic humor and wit which makes the movie all the funnier... Read Full Review Here!	Write a review	Write a review
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings (2001)	The Sum of All Fears (2002)	Tears of the Sun
one of the best stories brought to the screen by director Peter Jackson. The first in the trilogy, Fellowship of the Rings the beloved children's ...Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives	Write a review	Write a review
The Man Who Knew Too Much	The Ten Commandments (1956)	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
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Marie Antoinette (1938)	Three Kings (1999)	The Three Muskateers
This 18th century period portrays the life of Marie Antoinette, ( Norma Shearer) the Queen of France. The story begins when the young princess of Austria is married to the next king of France, Louie XVI... Read Full Review Here!	Write a review	Write a review
Midway (1976)	Timeline	To Have and Have Not (1945)
Write a review	Write a review	If you loved Casablanca then you'll certainly love "To Have and Have Not" Read Full Review Here!
Miracle	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)	Tucker: A Man and His Dream (1988)
This true story is about Herb Brooks and the U.S. under dog hockey team and how they challenge Russia for the Gold. Coach Brook conditions and trains... Read Full Review Here! Recommended for young conservatives	Write a review	true story of a man named Preston Tucker Preston who was a builder, inventor, and entrepreneur who brought us one of history's amazing inventions: The Tucker car. Read Full Review Here!
	Trainspotting (1996)	The Truman Show (1998)
	Write a review	a Tv broadcast all about Truman who hasn't the slightest clue he is being watched. The show broadcasts every hour of his life, from his childhood on up. Truman has never questioned... Read Full Review Here!
Nothing to Lose	Undercover Brother	Wag the Dog (1997)
Write a review	Write a review	story in the white house when the president commits a sexual scandal right before the up coming presidential election. Read Full Review Here!
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1988)	We Were Soldiers (2002)	White Fang (1991)
Write a review	Write a review	Young Jack Conroy is eager to claim his father's old mining ground in the Yukon Valley. As he is searching for gold, he finds something much more valuable... Read Full Review Here!
The Passion (2004)	The Winslow Boy (1999)	Witness (1985)
"The ultimate hero story for all mankind, Jesus suffered, died and still won" Mel Gibson's words for the block buster film The Passion of the Christ, inspired by the Holy... Read Full Review Here!	The film is about a family of respectability, which is now questioned by their young son, Ronnie Winslow, a young teen accused of stealing a five shilling postal order. The young boy is expelled ... Read Full Review Here!	Write a review
	The Yearling (1947)
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