There's a long though not terribly busy cinematic tradition of stories about young men attending military academies. In my lifetime, there has been "An Officer and a Gentleman," "Taps" and "The Lords of Discipline." Nearly all of them tie together the themes of boys coming of age and free spirits struggling under the yoke of military culture. (Perhaps notably, there haven't been any mainstream films since the 1980s that I can recall.)
The Duke of West Point (1938)
The Duke of West Point (1938)
The Duke of West Point (1938)
There's a long though not terribly busy cinematic tradition of stories about young men attending military academies. In my lifetime, there has been "An Officer and a Gentleman," "Taps" and "The Lords of Discipline." Nearly all of them tie together the themes of boys coming of age and free spirits struggling under the yoke of military culture. (Perhaps notably, there haven't been any mainstream films since the 1980s that I can recall.)