{"id":349,"date":"2015-07-02T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/07\/02\/celebrate-merica-with-an-irrationally-patriotic-movie-marathon\/"},"modified":"2015-07-02T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T20:20:00","slug":"celebrate-merica-with-an-irrationally-patriotic-movie-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/07\/02\/celebrate-merica-with-an-irrationally-patriotic-movie-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate ‘merica with an irrationally patriotic movie marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 Fourth of July falls on a Saturday this year, so many DC businesses are taking Friday off too \u2013 including us! The extended weekend gives us an opportunity to cram in a few more patriotic movies. We have fond memories of spending the Fourth lazily watching Independence Day<\/i> on basic cable, and for America’s 239th birthday, we look forward to three days of the same.<\/p>\n

When making Fourth of July recommendations, there’s a few classics. Lincoln<\/i> is a powerful portrait of one country’s greatest presidents, and 1776<\/i> will always be entertaining for making Benjamin Franklin singing about “sexual combustibility.” But for a holiday primarily about blowing things up, we also need to recommend the most aggressively, absurdly patriotic movies. There’s a danger, especially in military films, of patriotism turning violent or xenophobic, but the best rootin’-tootin’ America-worshipping movies love our country to an exaggerated level that’s almost harmless in its total silliness.<\/p>\n

So, before we close tonight, we recommend swinging by the library for one of these movies that celebrates America \u2013 either in serious reverence of its history or in total, deep-fried excess. National Treasure<\/i> probably falls hallway between those.<\/p>\n

1776 \u2013 HU DVD 4969<\/a>
Glory \u2013 HU DVD 1171<\/a>
Independence Day \u2013 HU DVD 3111<\/a>
John Adams (miniseries) \u2013 HU DVD 4991 – 4993<\/a>
Lincoln \u2013 HU DVD 6210<\/a>
National Treasure \u2013 HU DVD 11187<\/a>
The Patriot \u2013 <\/span>HU DVD 347*<\/a>
<\/span>Red Dawn \u2013 HU DVD 259<\/a>
Team America: World Police \u2013 HU DVD 2089<\/a>
Top Gun \u2013 HU DVD 2959<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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