Are there any political films that are conservative?
 

Anyone know of any political films that have a positive conservative message? Big films, small films whatever, would just like to hear about some. Please don't start a debate here.

This list is 10 years old and seems to deal more with movies with conservative themes, rather than overtly political movies. Anyway...

National Review's Best Conservative Movies

I would add "Big Wednesday" to that list. For all the drunken fights, drugs and draft dodging, the movie is really about conservative ideals like honor, assuming responsibility and being loyal to your friends. Even though it's got a hefty dose of macho-mythology, it's still great stuff.

Note: I'm not implying that those ideals are solely the domain of conservatives, but you know. Whatever, watch the movie, you'll see what I mean about it being fairly conservative.

Eschewing the exact focus of politics, for a moment, I still think the STRAIGHT STORY is the most conservative film of the last 25 years. A model for some enterprising filmmaker to follow and lead us out of this cultural morass . . .

Odd that David Lynch should be the most conservative of the recentmajor directors. No, he's not such, but he has his moments . . .

I'll beat you haters to the punch and suggest that all his rooting around in the 50s is not solely ironic. Perhaps I'm optomistic, yes, but I want to believe, and sometimes that's good enough.

Just took a quick look at that list. I am wondering how "How Green Was My Valley" constitutes a conservative film. Unless we are talking about the mine owners.

Boy some of those choices on that national review list are odd . . . Of course, most are old movies, depressingly. Ghostbusters? Rambo: Part II?
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE?????

I've seen most of the movies on that list, and really most of them espouse conservative values as opposed to conservative politics.

Forrest Gump
Most conservative movie ever

Birth of a Nation

There's a new one coming out on DVD put out by two guys I saw on the O'Reilly Factor that actually shows the brutality of Saddam Hussein and his regime (something we all have forgotten lately). They were both admitted conservatives.

Team America may be another one.

I saw that on O'Reilly. One guy was an admitted conservative, the other is a moderate Republican. Good joke abotu Team America.

There is also a movie being made about the liberal bias in universities/colleges. The guy has made a 45 minute version of it so far that he is using to gain funding for his full length feature he wants to release in theatres in 2005. Check out the article about it here:
http://www.brain-terminal.com/video/...shing-101.html

and then info about the movie as well as a link to download the 45 minute version here:

http://academicbias.com/bw101.html

It's really cool looking, the end of the video is great!

??? I wasn't joking. Matt Stone & Trey Parker seem pretty conservative to me. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it, as it's not out yet and I haven't seen it yet.

Those gentlemen might be right-leaning or liberatrian in some of thier politics (if only to be different.) I don't know who'd call them "conservative." They do a lot of things seemingly for shock value. I appreciate thier willingness to be Un P.C.. but . . .

Of course, I'm not the arbitrator of labels. Labels don't mean much, anyway. George Bush might be today's "conservative", when in fact, he's more liberal than yesterday's liberal. This has nothing to do with movies, of course.

Trey and Matt might be right leaning libertarians, but anybody who would produce "That's My Bush" is not a 'conservative'.

I think Team America will be an equal opportunity offender.

Now I'll take the opposite argument and suggest that "That's my Bush" wasn't so harsh on Bush as it was on generic sitcom formula. Actually, I thought it was cute satire more than anything so biting.

Actually, back when the show debuted Matt and Trey said they had a version of the show ready to go no matter who won the election. As Joebob X wrote, the show was designed as a sitcom formula, which would have fit Gore or Bush either one.

On topic, I'll go with "Rambo," any of the "Death Wish" movies, "Triumph of the Will," or "Red Dawn."

"Triumph of the Will"? "Birth of a Nation"? Come on guys . . .

Did you miss the memo which stated that all conservatives are Nazis?

They think The Bicycle Thief is a conservative movie? It's quite clearly a Marxist movie.

As for conservative movies, I'd go with High Noon, Red Dawn, and most John Wayne movies from the 60s...

I like the suggestion National Review makes of TENDER MERCIES and I'd add another Horton Foote movie A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL.

That list is somewhat interesting. I don't totally agree with it though. But there aren't any real conservative political films are there?

it seems as though there are quite a few films that display conservative values, but thats different from conservative politics. none come to mind, but how many contemporary directors are conservative activists? wouldnt think too many...hopefully people will keep their own views out of this thread lol

Network
The American President
Saved! (not really politics but religion)
Nixon

Maybe the best place to start is just coming up with a list of "political films" .

Then, you can debate on a case by case basis whether the film has a "positive conservative message".

Mr Smith Goes To Washington is undeniably a political film.

Some might say that it espouses a liberal message simply because the villain is a rich businessman.

I say it is conservative because even though it points out how govt can be corrupted by the rich and powerful, it's solution is not radical change --or change of any kind.
It's ultimate message is "Don't worry you poor and disenfranchised, everything works out in the end. The system works. The status quo is fine."