What is Born on the Fourth of July's IQ Score?

Born on the Fourth of July has an IQ Score of 164/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 41/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 41/50 Educational Value, and 41/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Born on the Fourth of July educational?

Born on the Fourth of July is strong on educational value, 41/50 on TVI's rubric, which covers academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's IQ Score is calculated as round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers: Masterclass (≥160), Stimulating (≥130), Competent (≥100), Passive (≥70), and Numbing (<70). The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Born on the Fourth of July , IQ Score 164/200

Born on the Fourth of July has an IQ Score of 164/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-06-17·Methodology

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164/ 200

Masterclass

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.2

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,338 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Oliver Stone →

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The TVI Take

Oliver Stone's 1989 Tom Cruise-anchored film about Ron Kovic, the Vietnam-veteran-turned-antiwar-activist whose memoir Stone co-adapted. The structural commitment to letting Cruise's against-type leading-man performance render the canonical Vietnam-veteran trauma material, and Stone's most-direct post-Platoon political-historical work, is the canonical late-1980s Vietnam-cinema entry.

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