In honor of America’s Independence Day, movie fan site Ain’t it Cool News hosted a “Top 10 Films about America” get-together for all their writers. Here are my picks (in no particular order):

  1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

  2. Dr. Strangelove

  3. Taxi Driver/Badlands

  4. Birth of a Nation

  5. JFK/Nixon

  6. The Candidate/The Contender

  7. Million Dollar Baby

  8. Midnight Cowboy/The Grapes of Wrath

  9. Do the Right Thing

  10. Citizen Kane/The Bad and the Beautiful