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Fifty Years of Liberal Message Movies

Updated Friday, Feb. 15, 2002, at 2:17 PM

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Adam Baer is a culture critic for the New York Sun and contributor to the New York Times Book Review, Travel + Leisure, and Slate, among other publications.

Ben Mathis-Lilley is a senior editor at Buzzfeed.

Ben Wasserstein is an associate editor at New York magazine.

Stills from: Hart's War © 2002 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures; John Q. © 2001 New Line Productions; Crossroads © 2002 Paramount Pictures; Return to Never Land © 2002 Disney Enterprises; Super Troopers © 2002 Cataland Films. All rights reserved.