Iconic No. 5 in BestEverBuzz’s Patriotic Movies July 4th countdown
One of the most iconic images in WWII and American history is the subject of the No. 5 film in BestEverBuzz’s Patriotic Movies July 4th countdown: Sands of Iwo Jima.
BestEverBuzz continues its America’s Top 10 Patriotic Movies July 4th countdown, with two each day concluding on July Fourth. We hope it stirs your own sense of patriotism, lights your July 4th fireworks and inspires you to see these movies in a new light – or maybe see them for the first time.
After the countdown, ending on the Fourth of July, we’ll reveal five more patriotic movies that barely missed the cut. As for those that did make the Top 10, here are links to No. 10, to No. 9, to No. 8, to No. 7 and to No. 6.
Now, let’s look at No. 5 in BestEverBuzz’s Patriotic Movies July 4th countdown!
- Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Maybe it should be a statute that every statue should have a movie made about its back story. The iconic raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima during World War II has been told several times – none more patriotically than in this 1949 film starring, of course, John Wayne. Even the comic-book-like movie poster is worthy of a wartime morale-boost.
Featuring some of the actual flag-raisers themselves, Sands of Iwo Jima brings to life one of the most memorable and patriotic images in American war history.
What a comforting salve and point of pride this film must have been for the worn-out survivors of World War II, as they undertook to rebuild their lives – and to build America into a superpower.
The movie even scores a perfect 100% from the critics at RottenTomatoes.com.
And that’s why Sands of Iwo Jima is No. 5 in BestEverBuzz’s Patriotic Movies July 4th countdown.
