Movies that may have some meaning for progressives: add your list here

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1990. Great link of science and social conscience.

It's my favorite movie. The things the Joads endured are still happening, although maybe the names have changed.

This one will never lose it's power. I've read it something like 10 times and it makes me cry everytime.

I <3 Atticus Finch!

Takes place in Ireland i believe, but it is an awesome movie. One of the best movies I've seen.

It takes place in northern england, with the miner's strike as the backdrop. Very, very good movie.

A great take on xenophobia, the hypocrisy of morality, aggression/oppression relative to American socio-economic status & so much more. One of my all time favorite films.

Anything by John Sayles, really

liberalism in a movie made in the last ten years that more than 1 million people have seen.

I feel that the only movie that relates to politics is The Parallax View.

:hippie:

The Farmer's Daughter. Yes, it's a bit cute, but just watch Charles Bickford kick some racist ass! There are also references to a living wage.

State of the Union. Spencer Tracy as a Republican who believes in a national health care system.

And from the 1980s and the grim history of Central and South America:

Missing

Romero

The Mission

I loved that fucking movie.

Powwow highway- a buddy road trip movie w/ native american characters-good story, setting, memorable characters.

Beyond Rangoon- american woman's political awakening in Burma - dmn good for hollywood.

El norte - very powerful movie about Guatemalan refuges, a brother & sister, who travel to US.

they tackled about everything...racism, sexual repression, personal expression and misogony.

Pleasantville kicks ass! It basically destroys the whole conservative myth about just how wonderful and pleasant life was in the fifties. Five-star movie!

You just don't throw people (or horses) away because they are broken.

VS mean stingy Republican Mr.Potter .... and the Democrat wins!

Too bad that in 2004 we now find ourselves living in POttersville when we coulda had Bedford Falls. SIGH............

choice, power, and discrimination.

the release from stiff conservative educations to liberal ideas, the arts and free expression.

One of Robin Williams' best movies.

Just about everything in it confirmed my theories about how the world works.

great story, strong cast, and I'm a sucker for Michael Douglas and Annette Benning.

Men With Guns: John Sayles' Spanish-language film (with a great soundtrack) about the repression in Central America. An affluent doctor in an unnamed Central American country goes into the rural areas to find medical students who disappeared while on a charity mission.

Z This French-language movie featured mostly French actors and took place in a generic European setting, but at the time it was released, everyone knew that it was a fictionalized account of the military coup that destroyed democracy in Greece. The last few minutes explain the title.

I'd also like to cast votes for two better-known films, Bob Roberts and A Face in the Crowd, both of which now seem prophetic.

Did you know that it is one of my fondest wishes that the Bushboy may have a moment of unmasking like the one near the end of A Face in the Crowd?

Reds - good history of the left in this country

Catch 22 - anti-war

Fahrenheit 451 - book burning

Brother Sun, Sister Moon - good movie about St Francis and St Claire. IMO - what Christianity is supposed to be.

Rollerball - original version, about Corporate city-states controlling information and entertainment

The Candidate - about a politician who says what he thinks - in the 1970s

All the President's Men - good movie about Watergate

Spike Lee considered that the inspiration for Bamboozled?

thumbs up or down? gonna see it today, or next week

Michael Moore films (of course)

with Jack Lemmon & Sissy Spacek (sp?) US government (as usual) lying and covering up.

This 1990 movie lets you know what the impact will be when Bush* extends his No Child Left Behind policy to high schools.

Besides that, there is the incredible Leonard Cohen song "Everybody Knows".

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died

Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows...

And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows

And everybody knows that you're in trouble
Everybody knows what you've been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it's coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows

the movie "Exotica." Just about the last song in the world you'd expect to be played at a strip joint. Especially the Cohen version.

I've gone round posting the lyrics to that song after the last two pResidential elections. They fit the situation so well.