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Need suggestions: What Great Movies About America Should I Rent?
Any other suggestions?
Team America - World Police
Last of The Mohicans
The entire Band Of Brothers Series
13 Days (the only Kevin Costner movie I like other than the Untouchables)
I was thinking more along the lines of something you would show in an American history class to a bunch of immigrants who wish to become Americans and understand our country.
A lot of those movies are stupid comedies. How are they suppose to show anything about our country---how stupid it is??? I think the OP wants movies that show our country's greatness.
Kinda hard to know just what the OP wants.
The question is extremely open to interpretation.
Exactly what area of American experience are you looking for? Meanwhile I would suggest Once Upon a Time in America that examines the immigrant experience and the establishment of each ethnicity's place in the mean streets of the new world as well as Gangs of New York and Miller's Crossing.
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Originally Posted by clb10
... I was thinking more along the lines of something you would show in an American history class to a bunch of immigrants who wish to become Americans and understand our country.
Well then, don't need to show newly arrived folks how to live by joining together in gangs for protection So here's a different list. During the 30's the country was going through the Great Depression and it affected all Americans in different ways. As ecvMatt recommended, The Grapes of Wrath looks at the conditions of people living on the great plains who lose their home due to economic conditions and the Dust Bowl environmental disaster. They travel to California and are exploited along the way. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a rural Alabama town and looks at the racial issues of the day as well as depression era issues. For a more modern look at the those times Kit Kittredge: An American Girl looks at a family who survives tough times by taking in boarders while father is away looking for work. This story is told from the young daughter's point of view.
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So here's a different list. During the 30's the country was going through the Great Depression and it affected all Americans in different ways. As ecvMatt recommended, 
