20 Most Inspiring Movies Of All-Time
18. Babe
Okay, go with us on this one. Yes, it's about a little pink piglet. Yes, it has singing mice. Yes, all the animals talk. Put all that aside for a moment though and this is Rocky set in a farmyard. It's A Wonderful Life with trotters. It is, well, it's about the bravest little piglet this side of the field. Babe is an orphaned piglet who is all alone before Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) brings him home and is adopted by Fly the sheepdog who lets him call her Mom.
After Babe escapes being Christmas dinner he soon finds a talent for sheep-herding by, well, being polite to the sheep and asking them to move. Eventually, through trials and tribulations, peaks and troughs and discrimination aplenty, Babe enters the local sheep-herding completion and, thanks to those that didn't believe in him finally helping, wins before ending on Farmer Hoggetts emotional mantra, That'll do pig. Thatll do.
Just because this is a family film doesn't mean it's not as inspirational as, say, a Dead Poets Society. It plays with the same themes and many films on this list but wraps it all up with animals and sunshine and it's no worse for that. Babe is as much an underdog as Rocky Balboa and for that, he is a modern hero. Just dont mention the sequel.