Essential American History Movies

Essential American History Movies This Fourth of July, America celebrates its 250th anniversary! That’s two and a half centuries of the American Dream, democracy, and bacon-wrapped hot dogs — and difficult memories like war, bigotry, and pineapple on pizza. There’s no better time to reflect on our past than now, and films allow us to examine our most important historical figures and events through the lens of what we’ve learned in the past couple of centuries. For our list of American history mo