The List
1. A Man for All Seasons 2. Chariots of Fire 3. Therese 4. King of Kings 5. The Ten Commandments 6. Johnny Belinda 7. Quo Vadis? 8. Carnal Knowledge 9. Ten 10. Tender Mercies 11. Three Godfathers 12. The Bicycle Thief 13. My Left Foot 14. Stand and Deliver 15. Lean on Me 16. Meet Me in St. Louis 17. Little Women 18. Since You Went Away 19. Penny Serenade 20. How Green Was My Valley 21. Fort Apache 22. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 23. Rio Grande 24. The Quiet Man 25. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 26. A Canterbury Tale 27. I Know Where Im Going 28. Dumbo 29. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 30. You Cant Take It with You 31. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 32. Meet John Doe 33. Its a Wonderful Life 34. My Darling Clementine 35. Sergeant York 36. Yankee Doodle Dandy 37. Red Dawn 38. The Hanoi Hilton 39. Rambo: First Blood Part II 40. The Deer Hunter |
41. Heartbreak Ridge 42. Wake Island 43. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 44. That Hamilton Woman 45. Kings Row 46. Knute Rockne All American 47. The Inner Circle 48. Ninotchka 49. Marie Antoinette 50. A Tale of Two Cities 51. Viva Villa 52. There Was a Crooked Man 53. The Next Voice You Hear 54. Going My Way 55. The Song of Bernadette 56. Lilies of the Field 57. High Noon 58. The Fountainhead 59. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 60. The Yearling 61. I Remember Mama 62. Father of the Bride 63. Fathers Little Dividend 64. Sounder 65. Baby Boom 66. Judge Priest 67. State Fair 68. Shane 69. Drums Along the Mohawk 70. Ruggles of Red Gap 71. To Kill a Priest 72. Man of Marble 73. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 74. Animal Farm 75. Eleni 76. Dr. Zhivago 77. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 78. Ghostbusters 79. Too Hot to Handle 80. White Nights 81. Forbidden Planet |
I love Since You Went Away.
Interesting list. A few of NR’s picks seem a bit odd, though.
I was only 12 when I saw Deer Hunter, so I may have missed a lot, but it didn’t strike me as a conservative film. Carnal Knowledge I only know by reputation, but I wouldn’t have thought of it as a conservative standard bearer, either. Maybe I need to add a couple of rentals to my Netflix queue in the near future, eh?
One I’d add to the NR list, even though it was done by and starred a die-hard liberal actor: Jeremiah Johnson. Living free and on one’s own terms to me goes to the very essence of conservatism.
I'm kind of surprised that a movie like Breaker Morant didn't make that list -- and doesn't get any mention as a great "conservative" movie.
The movie appears to have a pacifist message, but I've always been attracted to it because of the simple way it promotes an absolute distrust in government.