Moving Minutes

The Pursuit of Happyness - "Protect Your Dream" “Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something.” Chris Gardner’s advice to his son epitomizes the spirit of individualism. Every individual is ultimately responsible for his or her own success or failure.

Rocky Balboa - "Pursuit of Happiness" “We’re just looking out for your interests,” the Pennsylvania Athletic Commission tells Rocky Balboa upon denying his request to reenter the boxing ring. Rocky responds that it is up to the individual—not the government—to determine one’s own best course of action.

300 - "Age of Freedom" Free people must always stand against tyrants, even if they are outnumbered–for history shows that it only takes a determined few to preserve and promote freedom. In “Age of Freedom,” King Leonidas leads his small army of men against Xerxes, the brutal Persian king who seeks global domination.

What happens when a terrorist group advocates the violent overthrow of the United States government, declares war against the U.S., and spearheads a six-year bombing campaign resulting in over thirty explosions? Answer: its leaders go on to educate your children. William Ayers, Mark Rudd, and Bernardine Dohrn, the Weather Underground leaders responsible for a series of atrocious attacks in the late sixties, all became college professors.

Fueled by raw emotion and armed with razor-sharp intellect, John Adams proclaims to a colonial assembly that liberty is not just reserved for aristocrats. Even the “meanest and lowest” of the people, Adams argues, are as entitled "to the air to breathe, light to see, food to eat, and clothes to wear as the nobles or the king."