Courage
- The power or quality of dealing with or facing danger, fear, pain, etc.
- To act in accordance with one’s beliefs, especially in spite of criticism.
Examples of Courage in Film
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
- A Better Life
- A Few Good Men
- A History of Violence
- A Man for All Seasons
- Air Force One
- Alien vs. Predator
- Aliens
- All the President’s Men
- Alpha Dog
- Amazing Grace
- An Officer and a Gentleman
- Anonymous
- Apollo 13
- Batman Begins
- Before Night Falls
- Bend It Like Beckham
- Billy Elliot
- Bound
- Boys Don’t Cry
- Boyz N the Hood
- Bridget Jones’ Diary
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Captains Courageous
- Casualties of War
- Clash of the Titans (1981)
- Clash of the Titans (2010)
- Contact
- Crimson Tide
- Deacons for Defense
- Deep Impact (Has really grown on me over the years…)
- Defending Your Life
- Dirty Dancing
- Donnie Brasco
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Erin Brockovich
- Everything is Illuminated
- Fair Game
- Flatliners
- Four Days in September
- G.I. Jane
- Gandhi
- Gladiator
- Gran Torino
- Hairspray (2007)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Inception
- Jack Goes Boating
- Jerry Maguire
- Juno
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Man on Wire
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Men of Honor
- Milk
- Norma Rae
- Not Without My Daughter
- Patriot Games
- Platoon
- Predator
- Red Dragon
- Rounders
- Rushmore
- Schindler’s List
- Serpico
- Shall We Dance? (1996)
- Silkwood
- Source Code
- Star Trek (2009)
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Stranger Than Fiction
- Straw Dogs (2011)
- Super 8
- The Accused
- The African Queen
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Contender
- The Cooler
- The Edge
- The Firm
- The Full Monty
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
- The Help
- The Hunt for Red October
- The King’s Speech
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Matrix
- The Princess Bride
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Thirteen Days
- Titanic
- Under the Tuscan Sun
- Warrior
- Watership Down
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- Working Girl
“courage.” Dictionary.com Unabridged. 18 Dec. 2011. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/courage>.
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