It’s officially been 39 years since “Red Dawn” hit theaters and millions of Americans celebrated the most patriotic film ever made.

The classic film with Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, Lea Thomas and Powers Boothe hit theaters August 10, 1984 and nearly four decades later still lives on as a cultural icon in cinema.

The plot is simple. Dirty, disgusting communists invade America during a time of intense tensions between east and west, they take over Calumet, Colorado and a group of high school students take to the mountains to carry out guerrilla warfare against the invaders.