Recommended Movies

Recommended movies for entertainment and education.


1. Casablanca The classic story of love and loss. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, you can’t go wrong.
2. For Whom the Bell Tolls The movie adaptation of Hemingway’s classic. Surprisingly accurate to the book starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.
3. The Matrix Not a big Keanu Reeves fan, but a compelling story that is ominously prophetic.
4. In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas Starring Michael Gross and Rod Steiger a fact based movie about WWII vet and tax rebel Gordon Kahl and the FBI agents pursuing him.
5. The Lord of the Rings Triology Nothing needs to be said, purely excellent.
6. The Thirteenth Warrior Antonio Banderas at his best.
7. To Have and Have Not Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in the Hemingway classic which, is one of the rare exceptions, in that it is totally different from the story, but it is better than the original story. I would like to see an accurate rendering of the original, however.
8. Go Tell the Spartans Burt Lancaster in a compelling movie of the early days of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam.
9. Enemy of the State Will Smith and Gene Hackman portray two men in an unlikely alliance at odds with a government out of control.
10. The Siege Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington terrorist attacks in NYC lead to martial law. Hmmm…
11. The Patriot Mel Gibson and the revolutionary war. Need I say more?
12. Red Dawn Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen star as reluctant guerrillas against Soviet occupation. A must see.
13. Braveheart Mel Gibson and the struggle of the Scottish to wrest freedom from the British.
14. Michael Collins Liam Neeson portrays Irish Republican Army leader Michael Collins in the fight for Irish independence.