Curated by Xoe and Rita
This is not our definitive statement on which films have the "correct" politics. Some of these films you may find anarchic, some nihilistic, some didactic, hypocritical, liberal, electoralist, pro-establishment, vague, romanticized, or overly-idealistic.
However it's a collection of movies that we felt were worthy of this list for any of a number of reasons. Each film on this list will do at least one of the following:
- Inspire critical thought or political action on the side of human dignity
- Offer guidance on what we might, could (or definitely should not) do
- Expose social realities
- Teach us about material history
- Preserve images of a suppressed or censored past
- Revise the dominant parrative on history
- Imagine alternate histories
- Show us possible futures
- Tell stories worth telling about the complexities of human thought and behavior
- Condemn the corrupting forces of capitalism and fascism over and over again
- Demonstrate the human impulse towards love and cooperation amid destruction
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