Political cinema, in the narrow sense, refers to cinema products that portray events or social conditions, either current or historical, through a partisan perspective, with the intent of informing or agitating the spectator.[citation needed]
In the narrow sense of the term, political cinema refers to films that do not hide their political stance. In this sense, they differ from other films not because they are political, but because of the way in which their politics is presented. As such, a film does not necessarily have to be pure propaganda to be considered 'political cinema'.[citation needed]
The broader meaning of 'political cinema' is argued to be that "all films are political;"[1][2][3][4] even films that are ostensibly 'apolitical' and escapist, merely promising 'entertainment' as an escape from everyday life, can be understood as fulfilling a political function. The authorities in Nazi Germany, for instance, knew this very well and organized a large production of deliberately escapist films.[citation needed] In other 'entertainment' films, such as westerns, the ideological bias is evident in the distortion of historical reality. A "classical" western would rarely portray black cowboys, although there were a great many of them in the American frontier. Hollywood cinema, which can be understood as the dominant industry of cinema, was often accused of misrepresenting black, female, gay, and working-class people.[citation needed] More fundamentally, not only are the contents of individual films political, but the institution of cinema itself can also be taken as political as well. A huge number of people congregate, not to act together or to talk to each other, but to sit silently, after having paid for it, to be spectators separated from each other. Guy Debord, a critic of the 'society of the spectacle', for whom "separation is the alpha and omega of the spectacle," was therefore also violently opposed to cinema, even though he would make several films portraying his ideas.[citation needed]
In order to differentiate between the narrow and broad notions of 'political cinema', film scholar Ewa Mazierska suggested to divide all such films into the categories of conformist or oppositional and marked or unmarked:[5]
Conformist films "accept the political status quo;" while oppositional films reject it.
Marked political films are willing to reveal to their viewers the party/ideology "they serve"; while unmarked films prefer to hide it.
From this point of view, it is the oppositional and marked political films that the most viewers regard as 'political', as discussions about politics in film typically single out these two categories.[5]
History
Cinema, World War I and its aftermath
Before World War I French cinema had a big share of the world market. Hollywood used the collapse of the French production to establish its hegemony. Ever since it has dominated world film production not only economically but has transformed cinema into a means to disseminate American values.[citation needed]
In Germany the Universum Film AG, better known as UFA, was founded to counter the perceived dominance of American propaganda. During the Weimar Republic many films about Frederick II of Prussia had a conservative nationalistic agenda, as Siegfried Kracauer and other film critics noted.[citation needed]
Communists like Willi Münzenberg saw the Russian cinema as a model of political cinema. Soviet films by Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov and others combined a partisan view of the bolshevist regime with artistic innovation which also appealed to western audiences.[citation needed]
National Socialism
This section may be unbalanced towards certain viewpoints. Please improve the article or discuss the issue on the talk page.(March 2021)
Leni Riefenstahl has never been able or willing to face her responsibility as a chief propagandist for National-Socialism, i.e., Nazism. Almost unlimited resources and her undeniable talent led to results, which, despite their hideous aims, still fascinate some aficionados of film. While there is much controversy around her work, it is generally accepted that Riefenstahl's main commitment was to filmmaking, rather than to the Nazi Party. Proof of this might be seen by the portrayal of Jesse Owens' victory in her film about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Olympia (1938), and in her later work, mostly on her photographic expeditions to Africa.[citation needed]
The same is certainly not true of the violent anti-Semitic films of Fritz Hippler. Other Nazi political films made propaganda for so-called euthanasia.[citation needed]
Especially in the last decades of the 20th century, many filmmakers considered focusing on remembrance of and reflection upon major collective crimes such as the Holocaust, slavery and disasters such as the Chernobyl disaster to be their political and moral duty.[citation needed]
The form has always been an important concern for political filmmakers. While some, like pioneering Lionel Rogosin, argued that radical films, in order to liberate the imagination of the spectator, have to break not only with the content but also with the form of Dominant cinema, the falsely reassuring clichés and stereotypes of conventional narrative film making, other directors such as Francesco Rosi, Costa Gavras, Ken Loach, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee or Lina Wertmüller preferred to work within mainstream cinema to reach a wider audience.[citation needed]
The subversive tradition dates back at least to the French avant-garde of the 1920s. Even in his more conventional films Luis Buñuel stuck to the spirit of outright revolt of L'Âge d'or. The bourgeoisie had to be expropriated and all its values destroyed, the surrealists believed. This spirit of revolt is also present in all films of Jean Vigo.[citation needed]
Selected filmography
The following is a listing of notable political films or political films made by notable directors:
^Zimmer, Christian, and Lee Leggett. 1974. "All Films Are Political." SubStance 3(9):123–36. doi:10.2307/3684517. JSTOR 3684517.
^Schoenbrun, Jane (9 November 2016). "All Movies are Political Movies. We Need to Do Better". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
^Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Cinema is Always Political, Says Star Director Costa-Gavras | DW | 03.02.2008". DW.COM. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
^Wayne, Mike. 2001. Political Film: The Dialectics of Third Cinema. London: Pluto Press. p. 1.
^ abMazierska, Ewa. 2014. "Introduction: Marking Political Cinema." Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 55(1):35–44. doi:10.13110/framework.55.1.0033.
Griffith's highly controversial film, which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan, is widely considered to be a masterpiece due to its impact on the development of cinema. The basic structure consists of a description of an idealized lost idyll ("the Old South"), the disruption of this order during reconstruction post-Civil War, and the restoration of white supremacy, which is shown a legitimate goal that unites the former enemies. In the end, the leader of the KKK secures his private happiness too and the alleged idyll is restored.[citation needed]
^Militant film about the misery of Belgian coal miners. Cf.Les Enfants du borinage: Lettre à Henri Storck, Director: Patric Jean, 2000.[citation needed]
^Technically brilliant propaganda film about the Reichsparteitag in Nuremberg 1934.[citation needed]
^"He creates the image of an America that is complacent in its victory, prosperity and racism; the narrator warns: 'Nigger, kike, wop, take my advice and accept the facts – the world is already arranged for you' " (Barsam).
^Legendary documentary feature film about a strike in New Mexico. Not only do the workers have to fight against the company, but also their women against their macho attitude in order to be "allowed" to support them fully.[citation needed]
^Socialist realism – German Democratic Republic style.[citation needed]
^An important film about alcoholism and the homeless in New York City.[citation needed]
^Focuses on the cruel reality of street life in the U.S.[citation needed]
^Peter Rist (May 8, 2014). Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 550. ISBN9780810880368. Terra em Transe (Land in Anguish, aka Entranced Earth) is also one of the most sophisticated political films ever made.
^Wiseman shows the inhumane conditions at the Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts. The film was banned in the United States for over two decades.[citation needed]
^Using the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria as an example, Sauper shows how Africa functions today, how famine, wars and aids, European "aid" and the ruthless plundering of African resources are connected.[citation needed]
^An African American documentary on race and the social impact of slavery.
^Documentary film based on the autobiography of Chin Peng, born in 1924, the last chairman of the forbidden Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) but this is not a conventional biographical film. Key elements in the film are the songs Hardesh Singh composed for the occasion. This is an often funny film about a difficult chapter in Malaysian history which is still taboo "back home".[citation needed]
^Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust: The Untold Story of the Aboriginal Genocide 2005-05-10 at the Wayback Machine. Hidden from History.org. Accessed 4 March 2009.
^"The World Without US: Editorial Review" (Web). Amazon. 13 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-04. [This 2008 documentary film is described as] 'a quick overview of the state of the world today, and a quick history lesson in how things have been going for the last 20 years or so, followed by a few things that seem very likely to occur if America decided to pull all of its military bases out of foreign countries and stop mucking about in foreign parts.'
^Mitch Anderson. . Mitch Anderson. Archived from the original (Web) on 2008-06-15. Retrieved 2009-03-04. Released in 2008, the documentary explores what might happen if the United States were to leave the international arena, rescind its global reach and become an isolationist nation for the first time since the early 20th century.
^Trailer and "About the film" at "The World Without US (Home Page)" (Web). Retrieved 2009-03-04.
^An African documentary on the history and contemporary state of Africa and African people.
^"No (2012) - Pablo Larraín | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
Zaniello, Tom. 2003. Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor. Cornell University Press. ISBN0-8014-4009-2
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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Political cinema news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article includes a list of general references but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations March 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message Political cinema in the narrow sense refers to cinema products that portray events or social conditions either current or historical through a partisan perspective with the intent of informing or agitating the spectator citation needed Political cinema exists in different forms such as documentaries short films feature films experimental films and even animated cartoons citation needed Contents 1 Concept 2 History 2 1 Cinema World War I and its aftermath 2 2 National Socialism 2 3 Third Cinema 2 4 Recent films 2 4 1 Globalization and related world issues 3 Forms 4 Selected filmography 5 See also 6 References 6 1 Bibliography 7 External linksConcept EditIn the narrow sense of the term political cinema refers to films that do not hide their political stance In this sense they differ from other films not because they are political but because of the way in which their politics is presented As such a film does not necessarily have to be pure propaganda to be considered political cinema citation needed The broader meaning of political cinema is argued to be that all films are political 1 2 3 4 even films that are ostensibly apolitical and escapist merely promising entertainment as an escape from everyday life can be understood as fulfilling a political function The authorities in Nazi Germany for instance knew this very well and organized a large production of deliberately escapist films citation needed In other entertainment films such as westerns the ideological bias is evident in the distortion of historical reality A classical western would rarely portray black cowboys although there were a great many of them in the American frontier Hollywood cinema which can be understood as the dominant industry of cinema was often accused of misrepresenting black female gay and working class people citation needed More fundamentally not only are the contents of individual films political but the institution of cinema itself can also be taken as political as well A huge number of people congregate not to act together or to talk to each other but to sit silently after having paid for it to be spectators separated from each other Guy Debord a critic of the society of the spectacle for whom separation is the alpha and omega of the spectacle was therefore also violently opposed to cinema even though he would make several films portraying his ideas citation needed In order to differentiate between the narrow and broad notions of political cinema film scholar Ewa Mazierska suggested to divide all such films into the categories of conformist or oppositional and marked or unmarked 5 Conformist films accept the political status quo while oppositional films reject it Marked political films are willing to reveal to their viewers the party ideology they serve while unmarked films prefer to hide it From this point of view it is the oppositional and marked political films that the most viewers regard as political as discussions about politics in film typically single out these two categories 5 History EditCinema World War I and its aftermath Edit Before World War I French cinema had a big share of the world market Hollywood used the collapse of the French production to establish its hegemony Ever since it has dominated world film production not only economically but has transformed cinema into a means to disseminate American values citation needed In Germany the Universum Film AG better known as UFA was founded to counter the perceived dominance of American propaganda During the Weimar Republic many films about Frederick II of Prussia had a conservative nationalistic agenda as Siegfried Kracauer and other film critics noted citation needed Communists like Willi Munzenberg saw the Russian cinema as a model of political cinema Soviet films by Sergei Eisenstein Dziga Vertov and others combined a partisan view of the bolshevist regime with artistic innovation which also appealed to western audiences citation needed National Socialism Edit This section may be unbalanced towards certain viewpoints Please improve the article or discuss the issue on the talk page March 2021 Leni Riefenstahl has never been able or willing to face her responsibility as a chief propagandist for National Socialism i e Nazism Almost unlimited resources and her undeniable talent led to results which despite their hideous aims still fascinate some aficionados of film While there is much controversy around her work it is generally accepted that Riefenstahl s main commitment was to filmmaking rather than to the Nazi Party Proof of this might be seen by the portrayal of Jesse Owens victory in her film about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin Olympia 1938 and in her later work mostly on her photographic expeditions to Africa citation needed The same is certainly not true of the violent anti Semitic films of Fritz Hippler Other Nazi political films made propaganda for so called euthanasia citation needed Third Cinema Edit Main article Third Cinema Recent films Edit Especially in the last decades of the 20th century many filmmakers considered focusing on remembrance of and reflection upon major collective crimes such as the Holocaust slavery and disasters such as the Chernobyl disaster to be their political and moral duty citation needed Globalization and related world issues Edit Political cinema of the 21st century seems to focus on controversial topics such as globalization AIDS and other health care concerns issues pertaining to the environment such as world energy resources and consumption and climate change and other complex matters pertaining to discrimination capitalism terrorism war peace religious and related forms of intolerance and civil and political rights as well as other human rights citation needed Forms EditThe form has always been an important concern for political filmmakers While some like pioneering Lionel Rogosin argued that radical films in order to liberate the imagination of the spectator have to break not only with the content but also with the form of Dominant cinema the falsely reassuring cliches and stereotypes of conventional narrative film making other directors such as Francesco Rosi Costa Gavras Ken Loach Oliver Stone Spike Lee or Lina Wertmuller preferred to work within mainstream cinema to reach a wider audience citation needed The subversive tradition dates back at least to the French avant garde of the 1920s Even in his more conventional films Luis Bunuel stuck to the spirit of outright revolt of L Age d or The bourgeoisie had to be expropriated and all its values destroyed the surrealists believed This spirit of revolt is also present in all films of Jean Vigo citation needed Selected filmography EditThe following is a listing of notable political films or political films made by notable directors Political filmography Title Year Director s Country Type of film NotesThe Birth of a Nation 1915 D W Griffith United States Feature 6 7 Stachka Strike 1925 Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Union FeatureBronenosets Potyomkin Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Union FeaturePadenie dinastii Romanovykh The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty 1927 Esfir Shub Soviet Union FeatureChelovek s kino apparatom Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov Soviet Union DocumentaryMadchen in Uniform Girls in Uniform 1931 Leontine Sagan Weimar Republic FeatureKuhle Wampe oder Wem gehort die Welt To Whom Does the World Belong 1932 Slatan Dudow Weimar Republic FeatureMisere au Borinage Penury in the Borinage 1934 Joris Ivens and Henri Storck Belgium Short documentary 8 Triumph des Willens Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Reifenstahl Nazi Germany Propaganda 9 Der ewige Jude Ein Filmbeitrag zum Weltjudentum The Eternal Jew 1940 Fritz Hippler Nazi Germany Propaganda 10 Strange Victory 1948 Leo Hurwitz East Germany Documentary 11 Salt of the Earth 1954 Herbert Biberman United States Feature 12 Ernst Thalmann Sohn seiner Klasse Ernst Thalmann Son of his Class 1954 East Germany Kurt Maetzig Feature 13 Ernst Thalmann Fuhrer seiner Klasse Ernst Thalmann Leader of his Class 1955 East Germany Kurt Maetzig Feature 14 On the Bowery 1956 Lionel Rogosin United States Docufiction 15 The Cool World 1964 Shirley Clarke United States Feature 16 Obyknovennyy fashizm Ordinary Fascism 1965 Mikhail Romm Soviet Union DocumentaryLa battaglia di Algeri The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo ItalyAlgeria FeatureTerra em Transe Entranced Earth 1967 Glauber Rocha Brazil Feature 17 La Chinoise ou plutot a la Chinoise un film en train de se fair The Chinese or rather in the Chinese manner a film in the making 1967 Jean Luc Godard France FeatureTiticut Follies 1967 Frederick Wiseman United States Documentary 18 La hora de los hornos The Hour of the Furnaces 1968 Fernando Solanas Argentina FeatureIn the Year of the Pig 1968 Emile de Antonio United States Documentary 19 Teorema Theorem 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy Feature 20 if 1968 Lindsay Anderson United Kingdom FeatureZ 1969 Costa Gavras Algeria France FeatureYawar Mallku Blood of the Condor 1969 Jorge Sanjines Bolivia FeatureSalesman 1969 Albert and David MayslesCharlotte Zwerin United States Documentary 21 Le Chagrin et la Pitie The Sorrow and the Pity 1970 Marcel Ophuls FranceWest GermanySwitzerland Documentary 22 Ghoroub wa Shorouq Sunset and Sunrise 1970 Kamal El Sheikh Egypt Feature 23 Warum lauft Herr R Amok Why Does Herr R Run Amok 1970 Rainer Werner Fassbinder West Germany Feature 24 Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers sondern die Situation in der er lebt It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse But the Society in Which He Lives 1971 Rosa von Praunheim Germany Documentary 25 Wanda 1971 Barbara Loden United States FeatureLa classe operaia va in paradiso The Working Class Goes to Heaven 1971 Elio Petri Italy FeatureIl Caso Mattei The Mattei Affair 1972 Francesco Rosi Italy FeatureSambizanga 1972 Sarah Maldoror Democratic Republic of the Congo Feature 26 La Societe du Spectacle The Society of the Spectacle 1974 Guy Debord France DocumentaryAngst essen Seele auf Ali Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder West Germany FeatureJeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles Jeanne Dielman 23 Commerce Quay 1080 Brussels 1975 Chantal Akerman BelgiumFrance Feature 27 28 Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini ItalyFrance FeatureAll the President s Men 1976 Alan J Pakula United States FeatureHarlan County USA 1976 Barbara Kopple United States DocumentaryYarinsiz Adam The Man Without Tomorrow 1977 Remzi Aydin Jonturk Turkey FeatureSatilmis Adam The Sold Man 1977 Remzi Aydin Jonturk Turkey FeatureYikilmayan Adam The Indestructible Man 1978 Remzi Aydin Jonturk Turkey FeatureBaara Work 1978 Souleymane Cisse Mali FeatureReds 1981 Warren Beatty United States FeatureThe Wave 1981 Alex Grasshoff United States Feature 29 Yol The Road 1982 Serif GorenYilmaz Guney Turkey FeatureBefore Stonewall The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community 1984 Greta Schiller United States DocumentaryShoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann France DocumentaryCamp de Thiaroye The Camp of Thiaroye 1988 Ousmane SembeneThierno Faty Sow Senegal FeatureAmerican Dream 1990 Barbara Kopple United StatesUnited Kingdom DocumentaryJFK 1991 Oliver Stone United States FeatureIn the Name of the Father 1993 Jim Sheridan United States Feature 30 Land and Freedom 1995 Ken Loach United KingdomSpainGermanyItalyFrance FeatureLumumba 2000 Raoul Peck FranceGermanyBelgiumHaiti Feature 31 Intimacy 2001 Patrice Chereau FranceUnited KingdomGermanyItaly Feature 32 Jang Aur Aman War and Peace 2002 Anand Patwardhan India Documentary 33 Gujarat A Laboratory of Hindu Rashtra Fascism undue weight discuss 2003 Suma Josson India DocumentaryFahrenheit 9 11 2004 Michael Moore United States DocumentaryMemoria del saqueo Social Genocide 2004 Fernando Solanas Argentina Documentary 34 Darwin s Nightmare 2004 Hubert Sauper AustriaFranceBelgium Documentary 35 500 Years Later 2005 Owen Alik Shahadah United KingdomUnited States Documentary 36 Syriana 2005 Stephen Gaghan United States FeatureThe Road to Guantanamo 2006 Michael WinterbottomMat Whitecross United Kingdom DocudramaThe Last Communist 2006 Amir Muhammad Malaysia Documentary 37 The Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez 2006 Heidi Specogna Switzerland DocumentaryAn Inconvenient Truth 2006 Davis Guggenheim United States DocumentaryPersepolis 2007 Marjane SatrapiVincent Paronnaud FranceIran Feature 38 Unrepentant Kevin Annett and Canada s Genocide undue weight discuss 2006 Louie Lawless Canada Documentary 39 Sicko 2007 Michael Moore United States DocumentaryWhat Would Jesus Buy 2007 Morgan Spurlock United States DocumentaryThe World Without US 2008 Mitch Anderson and Jason J Tomaric United States Documentary 40 41 42 Religulous 2008 Larry Charles United States DocumentaryMilk 2008 Gus Van Sant United States FeatureCapitalism A Love Story 2009 Michael Moore United States DocumentaryAmerican Radical The Trials of Norman Finkelstein undue weight discuss 2009 Nicolas RossierDavid Ridgen United States DocumentaryThe Yes Men Fix the World undue weight discuss 2009 Andy BichlbaumMike BonannoKurt Engfehr United States DocumentaryMotherland 2010 Owen Alik Shahadah United States Documentary 43 The Black Power Mixtape 1967 1975 2011 Goran Olsson Sweden DocumentaryThe Ides of March 2011 George Clooney United States FeatureToryBoy The Movie undue weight discuss 2011 John Walsh United Kingdom Documentary2016 Obama s America undue weight discuss 2012 Dinesh D Souza United States DocumentaryNo 2012 Pablo Larrain ChileFranceUnited States Feature 44 The Pervert s Guide to Ideology 2012 Sophie Fiennes United Kingdom Documentary 45 America Imagine the World Without Her undue weight discuss 2014 Dinesh D SouzaJohn Sullivan United States DocumentaryHillary s America The Secret History of the Democratic Party undue weight discuss 2017 Dinesh D SouzaBruce Schooley United States DocumentaryThe Death of Stalin 2017 Armando Iannucci United KingdomFranceBelgium FeatureDeath of a Nation undue weight discuss 2018 Dinesh D SouzaBruce Schooley United States DocumentaryFahrenheit 11 9 2018 Michael Moore United States DocumentaryVice 2018 Adam McKay United States FeatureThe Hunt 2020 Craig Zobel United States FeatureInfidel 2020 Cyrus Nowrasteh United States FeatureTrump Card undue weight discuss 2020 Dinesh D SouzaDebbie D SouzaBruce Schooley United States DocumentaryAbsolute Proof 2021 Brannon HowseMike Lindell United States DocumentaryDon t Look Up 2021 Adam McKay United States Feature2000 Mules undue weight discuss 2022 Dinesh D Souza United States DocumentarySee also Edit Film portal Journalism portalPolitical films category Cultural industry African cinema Documentary film List of racism related films List of films dealing with Anarchism Social criticism Women s cinemaReferences Edit Zimmer Christian and Lee Leggett 1974 All Films Are Political SubStance 3 9 123 36 doi 10 2307 3684517 JSTOR 3684517 Schoenbrun Jane 9 November 2016 All Movies are Political Movies We Need to Do Better Filmmaker Magazine Retrieved 2021 03 10 Welle www dw com Deutsche Cinema is Always Political Says Star Director Costa Gavras DW 03 02 2008 DW COM Retrieved 2021 03 10 Wayne Mike 2001 Political Film The Dialectics of Third Cinema London Pluto Press p 1 a b Mazierska Ewa 2014 Introduction Marking Political Cinema Framework The Journal of Cinema and Media 55 1 35 44 doi 10 13110 framework 55 1 0033 Birth of a Nation filmsite org Griffith s highly controversial film which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan is widely considered to be a masterpiece due to its impact on the development of cinema The basic structure consists of a description of an idealized lost idyll the Old South the disruption of this order during reconstruction post Civil War and the restoration of white supremacy which is shown a legitimate goal that unites the former enemies In the end the leader of the KKK secures his private happiness too and the alleged idyll is restored citation needed Militant film about the misery of Belgian coal miners Cf Les Enfants du borinage Lettre a Henri Storck Director Patric Jean 2000 citation needed Technically brilliant propaganda film about the Reichsparteitag in Nuremberg 1934 citation needed Virulently antisemitic citation needed He creates the image of an America that is complacent in its victory prosperity and racism the narrator warns Nigger kike wop take my advice and accept the facts the world is already arranged for you Barsam Legendary documentary feature film about a strike in New Mexico Not only do the workers have to fight against the company but also their women against their macho attitude in order to be allowed to support them fully citation needed Socialist realism German Democratic Republic style citation needed Socialist realism German Democratic Republic style citation needed An important film about alcoholism and the homeless in New York City citation needed Focuses on the cruel reality of street life in the U S citation needed Peter Rist May 8 2014 Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers p 550 ISBN 9780810880368 Terra em Transe Land in Anguish aka Entranced Earth is also one of the most sophisticated political films ever made Wiseman shows the inhumane conditions at the Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts The film was banned in the United States for over two decades citation needed A compilation film about the Vietnam War citation needed The power of desire disrupts a rich family citation needed Four men try to sell the Bible one of the most important films of direct cinema citation needed Politically a pathbreaking documentary about collaboration in France during the German occupation citation needed Remembering Kamal El Sheikh Egypt s pioneer of suspense Screens Arts amp Culture Ahram Online Retrieved 2023 01 19 Concerns the humiliating madness of ordinary life citation needed This film started the second gay movement in Germany citation needed Follows the liberation movement in Angola citation needed Mathijs Ernest Sexton Jamie 2012 03 30 Cult Cinema Ernest Mathijs Jamie Sexton Google Boeken p 140 ISBN 9781444396430 Retrieved 2015 02 20 Chantal Akerman Retour sur la carriere d une cineaste influente Elle 7 October 2015 The Wave 1981 Alex Grasshoff Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie In the Name of the Father 1993 Jim Sheridan Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie A moving and very intelligent poetical reflection on the presence of apparently bygone hopes and disasters citation needed Intense erotic film on solitude alienated sexuality and an impossible love citation needed On nuclear madness in India and Pakistan and their efforts to imitate Big Brother USA citation needed A passionately partisan survey of the history of neoliberalism in Argentina citation needed Using the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania s Lake Victoria as an example Sauper shows how Africa functions today how famine wars and aids European aid and the ruthless plundering of African resources are connected citation needed An African American documentary on race and the social impact of slavery Documentary film based on the autobiography of Chin Peng born in 1924 the last chairman of the forbidden Communist Party of Malaya CPM but this is not a conventional biographical film Key elements in the film are the songs Hardesh Singh composed for the occasion This is an often funny film about a difficult chapter in Malaysian history which is still taboo back home citation needed Animated biographical film based on the graphic novel of the same name citation needed Hidden from History The Canadian Holocaust The Untold Story of the Aboriginal Genocide Archived 2005 05 10 at the Wayback Machine Hidden from History org Accessed 4 March 2009 The World Without US Editorial Review Web Amazon 13 January 2009 Retrieved 2009 03 04 This 2008 documentary film is described as a quick overview of the state of the world today and a quick history lesson in how things have been going for the last 20 years or so followed by a few things that seem very likely to occur if America decided to pull all of its military bases out of foreign countries and stop mucking about in foreign parts Mitch Anderson Mitch Anderson s Biography Mitch Anderson Archived from the original Web on 2008 06 15 Retrieved 2009 03 04 Released in 2008 the documentary explores what might happen if the United States were to leave the international arena rescind its global reach and become an isolationist nation for the first time since the early 20th century Trailer and About the film at The World Without US Home Page Web Retrieved 2009 03 04 An African documentary on the history and contemporary state of Africa and African people No 2012 Pablo Larrain Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie with Slavoj Zizek Bibliography Edit Baldwin James 1976 2000 The Devil Finds Work New York Delta Trade Paperbacks Dell Publishing ISBN 0 385 33460 5 Barnouw Erik 1993 Documentary A History of the Non Fiction Film 2nd ed New York Oxford UP ISBN 0 19 507898 5 978 0 19 507898 5 A useful introduction Barsam Richard M 2003 Looking at Movies An Introduction to Film New York W W Norton amp Company ISBN 0 393 97436 7 978 0 393 97436 2 Book and CD ROM eds Daressa Larry 2008 May 10 The Political Film and Its Audience in the Digital Age Newsreel at Forty And Zero California Newsreel Rosenbaum Jonathan 1997 Movies as Politics University of California Press ISBN 0 520 20615 0 Unterburger Amy L ed 1999 The St James Women Filmmakers Encyclopedia Women on the Other Side of the Camera Detroit Visible Ink Press ISBN 1 57859 092 2 978 1 57859 092 6 Vogel Amos 2006 Film as a Subversive Art London CT Editions ISBN 1 933045 27 2 Zaniello Tom 2003 Working Stiffs Union Maids Reds and Riffraff An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor Cornell University Press ISBN 0 8014 4009 2External links EditDocumentary Is Never Neutral Cinema Politica Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Political cinema amp oldid 1146940279, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
