25 Movies That Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday

George Washington, in his first inaugural address in 1789, called the United States an “experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” We’ve been engaged in that great, glorious experiment for 250 years now—an experiment that many thought would end before it began.The story of that “Great Experiment” has been told in countless ways and from countless points of view. But here at Plugged In, we wanted to look at how that story has been told in film—appropriately, a very Ame