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The 10 Best Libertarian Movies
CATO Institute ^ | 2/22/19 | David Boaz

Posted on 11/05/2023 8:08:03 AM PST by DallasBiff

They’re not movies with John Galt speeches, and most of them aren’t really ideological at all. But the messages or the values are there.

Amazing Grace (2007)

John Newton was a slave trader who was converted to Christianity. He renounced his previous life and became an evangelical minister in the Church of England, an abolitionist, and the author of a beautiful hymn. “Was blind but now I see,” indeed. Among the people who heard his preaching was a young member of parliament, William Wilberforce, who was inspired to lead a long campaign for the abolition of slavery—from his maiden speech in 1789 to the final passage of the Abolition Act a month after his death in 1833. This movie reminds us that humanity has made great progress toward freedom, that each battle for freedom can be long and seemingly futile, but that the goal is worth time and money and effort>

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Have at it.
1 posted on 11/05/2023 8:08:03 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Never saw any of them. They sound a bit boring.


2 posted on 11/05/2023 8:13:33 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: DallasBiff

Haven’t seen any of these. I’ve got some catching up to do.


3 posted on 11/05/2023 8:13:50 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: DallasBiff

South Park!


4 posted on 11/05/2023 8:19:59 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: DallasBiff

Ghostbusters. Very subversively libertarian/conservative movie.


5 posted on 11/05/2023 8:21:05 AM PST by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: Triple

Team America......F Yeah!


6 posted on 11/05/2023 8:22:03 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff
The Music Man with Shirley Jones as Marian the Librarian...

huh? what?

Oh... Libertarian.... Well, that's different.

Nevermind.


7 posted on 11/05/2023 8:22:59 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: DallasBiff

Pacific Heights is why I will never be a landlord. Ever.


8 posted on 11/05/2023 8:31:57 AM PST by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head)
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To: DallasBiff
The ten movies in alphabetical order…

1776 (1972)
Amazing Grace (2007)
Amistad (1997)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
East‐​West (1999)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Pacific Heights (1990)
The Palermo Connection (1990)
Shenandoah (1965)

9 posted on 11/05/2023 8:54:41 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: DallasBiff

Koch-Backed CATO Institute: ‘Time for the U.S. to Have Open Borders’
The Cato Institute, a think tank partially founded by the billionaire, pro-mass immigration Koch brothers, is advocating for full open borders to the United States.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/07/31/koch-backed-cato-institute-time-for-the-u-s-to-have-open-borders/


10 posted on 11/05/2023 9:12:05 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff

Why are you posting this leftist libertarian stuff here?

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11 posted on 11/05/2023 9:15:29 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff; sphinx

1/10 for this list — Amazing Grace.


12 posted on 11/05/2023 9:20:34 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: DallasBiff

As is so common with your posting history, there is a homosexual advancing component to your postings.

CATO Institute has been a powerful libertarian force in advancing the gay power agenda.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cato+position+on+gay+rights&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS1057US1057&oq=cato+position+on+gay+rights&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTEyMTA1ajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


13 posted on 11/05/2023 9:33:14 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff

I haven’t seen Amistad, the true story of a bunch of blacks kidnapped by slavery who took over command of their captors ship. But as I understand it, it’s told from the white man’s eyes and the black slaves are pretty much relegated to the background of their own story.

That aside, I nominate a Roy Rogers film, Southward Ho, that has an anti-gun control message throughout the movie.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Xog8yWje0


14 posted on 11/05/2023 9:45:52 AM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: ansel12
All I did was post the big "L" Libertarian view, I don't support it or condone it.

Heck my favorite movie is "Gone With the Wind" or "Wizard of Oz" both released in 1939.

15 posted on 11/05/2023 9:56:29 AM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

PERFECT FOR TODAY, AND ONE OF MY FAVORITES, V FOR VENDETTA.


16 posted on 11/05/2023 9:56:30 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: DallasBiff
No two libertarians are going to have the same list.

Would the movie "Friendly Persuasion" be on this list - even tho it's about conflicted quakers?(vs. Shenandoah ?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Persuasion_(1956_film)
17 posted on 11/05/2023 9:59:35 AM PST by stylin19a (Back when men cursed & beat the ground with sticks, it was named witchcraft. Today it's named golf.)
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To: DallasBiff

You are advancing libertarianism to conservatives with one of the top libertarian organizations pushing the homosexual agenda and open borders.


18 posted on 11/05/2023 10:01:32 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Albion Wilde
2/10

Amazing Grace & Jimmy Stewart in Shenandoah

19 posted on 11/05/2023 10:02:41 AM PST by mware
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To: DallasBiff

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20 posted on 11/05/2023 10:26:19 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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