A Nous la LiberteTwo ex-convicts get jobs at a factory, where one works his way up to the job of owner, where he reduces workers to human machines. Faced with blackmail, he hits the road again with his old pal.
Aadalen 31A May Day parade of striking Swedish workers turns into a massacre of innocent people by the Swedish police. Based on a true story.
All Quiet on the Western FrontThis anti-war movie about German boys in World War I was banned by Hitler, as was the original book
All the President's MenThe story of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate Scandal which eventually forced President Richard Nixon from the White House.
Angel and the BadmanA gunslinger is changed by a remarkable woman.
Apocalypse NowA US special agent is sent up-river into Cambodia during the Vietnam War to kill a rogue officer.
Atomic Cafe, TheA look back at the 1960s propaganda on what to do in case of a nuclear attack and footage of nuclear explosions and their effect on the troops used as guinea pigs.
Belle EpoqueAt the time of the Spanish Civil War, a deserter is taken in by a farmer and wooed by his four daughters.
Birdman of Alcatraz, TheThe film is based on the story of a man named Robert Stroud, imprisoned for life on the island prison of Alcatraz in California who became a world authority on ornithology.
Blade RunnerDeckard, an L.A. cop in the year 2019, has the job of hunting and terminating replicants, sophisticated robots who have escaped a space colony and have infiltrated earth.
Born on the Fourth of JulyRon Kovic, a soldier paralyzed in the Vietnam War, becomes an anti-war organizer.
Bound for GloryThe story of folk singer Woodie Guthrie, from the time he left his home in Texas in the 1930s to his success on radio in California to his death in 1963(?). Woody wrote "This Land is Your Land" and "The Plane Crash in Los Gatos Canyon".
BrazilDeep in the bowels of a technocratic dictatorship enslaved by the output from bizarre computers, a hapless clerk rebels,
Burmese Harp, The [Biruma no Tategoto]After W.W. II, a Japanese soldier with a harp is sent to convince his fellow soldiers in Burma to surrender.
Burnt by the SunColonel Sergei Kotov, a hero of the Soviet Revolution, spends an idyllic summer at his wife's dacha with wife and his six-year-old daughter. His world changes when cousin Dmitri arrives from Moscow, and the hero suddenly become an enemy of the people.
Bye Bye BluesA woman from small-town Saskatchewan gets the chance to become a lead singer in a dance band during the Second World War. Her romance with a member of the band leads to a confrontation when her husband, from whom she had not heard since his capture, finally returns.
Cadillac ManA used car salesman, with 12 cars to sell or he loses his job, confronts a crazy jealous husband with a machine gun.
Catch-22A US bombardier in W.W. II learns the only way out of the Army is to go crazy; but if you want out, you're not crazy.
Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, La (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)The attempts by friends to hold a dinner party turns reality and etiquette upside down in this surrealistic comedy.
China Syndrome, TheThe cover-up of an accident at a California nuclear power plant entwines with the story of how television bends the news.
Colonel Chabert, LeA French Colonel, presumed dead, straggles back from Napoleon's Russian campaign to find his wife has taken his fortune and remarried.
Coming HomeA woman falls in love with a disabled Vietnam vet who campaigns against the War while her husband is in Vietnam.
Cool Hand LukeA drifter who deliberately defies the law winds up in jail, where things are even tougher, and only an unforgettable egg-eating contest provides relief.
Cry FreedomA white liberal newspaper editor in South Africa befriends a Black political leader, Steve Biko, who later dies at the hands of the police. The editor, charged under the censorship laws, escapes the country under a false passport.
Cry, the Beloved CountryIn South Africa, a poor Black man, Absolom Kumalo, moves to Johannesburg and falls in with bad company. He is involved in the murder of a good white man. Absolom's brother, preacher Stephen Kumalo (James Earl Jones) is befriended by the white landowner whose son was killed.
DaensA good-hearted priest, Father Daens, is sent to an industrial town where children slave at mechanized looms. The conflict between Daens and the local socialists turns upside down when they realize his sympathy for the workers and unite to elect him to Parliament.
Dances with WolvesPosted to Dakota Territory during the US Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar discovers an Indian tribe and turns to Native ways.
Dead Man WalkingA man convicted of murder and awaiting execution on death row writes to a nun, who works to set him free. Film is based on the true story of Sister Helen Prejean, a Louisiana nun who tried to end the death penalty in the USA.
Declin de l'empire americaine, LeFour university teachers - a gay man and three heterosexual men (one married, one celibate, one with a girl friend) - gather at a cottage on a lake to prepare dinner for the four women who arrive later. The discussion turns around sex, the female body, their love lives, and the political passions of the 1960s. The women then have the mirror image of this dialogue.
Devil in a Blue DressIn 1948, an African-American veteran gets involved in tracing a wealthy white woman hiding in the East Los Angeles ghetto. This sexually explicit mystery highlights the two worlds of 1940s America: the Black ghetto and the white neighborhoods.
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombA rogue US general, convinced of a Communist plot, sends a bomber to the Soviet Union, which could trigger a Doomsday Device if attacked.
Dreigroschenoper, Die (The Threepenny Opera)London is divided into discrete begging franchises, under the strict control of the beggar master, Mr. Peachum. It all goes well until the gangster Mack the Knife (Maeckie Messer) challenges Peachum's rule, and all the London underworld is forced to take sides.
Duck SoupThe Kingdom of Fredonia, governed by corrupt Rufus J. Firefly (Groucho) is threatened, invaded, and liberated with much stupidity but little violence.
Europa Europa [Hitlerjunge Salomon]A young Soviet Jew, captured by Hitler's Army, pretends to be German to save his life and is taken to an elite Hitler Youth School in Germany.
Fahrenheit 451Truffaut's only film in English, the film portrays a civilization where all books are banned.
Fly Away HomeAmy, 13, loses her mother in an car accident in New Zealand, and goes to Canada to live with her father. She finds a nest of goose eggs and helps them hatch, but then has to learn how to teach the goslings to fly south.
For the BoysDixie, an unknown singer, gets her chance with star Eddie in the USO in WW II, then has to face Korea, McCarthyism, and Vietnam.
For Whom the Bell TollsA young soldier fighting for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, has one night of romance before battle.
Free WillyA whale, captured and put on display in an aquatic show, is freed by a lad with a mission.
Friendly PersuasionA Quaker family in Indiana struggles to keep the Peace Testimony during the Civil War.
Front Page, TheA film version of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play about the sell-your-grandma-for-a-story Chicago newspapermen of the 1920s.
Front, TheA man of no talent or convictions (played by Woody Allen) is hired to be a front man for a group of blacklisted Hollywood writers during the 1950s.
Full Metal JacketMarine basic training on Paris Island cuts to the realities of combat in Vietnam.
GallipoliA young Australian runner, training for the Olympics, signs up for the Great War. He ends up on the beaches under Turkish guns in the middle of one of the bloodiest battles of that war.
GandhiThe life of Mohandas Gandhi, from his youth in South Africa to law school in England to his remarkable nonviolent campaign for Indian independence.>
GloryRobert G. Shaw, the white colonel commanding the first African-American brigade to fight for the Union in the Civil War, faces the prejudice of his fellow officers and Confederate orders to shoot him on sight.
Gods Must be Crazy, TheA Bushman in the Kalahari Desert finds a Coke bottle after it falls from the sky. When chaos breaks out over its intended use, he decides to return it to the Gods, from whence it came.
Gorillas in the MistThe story of the life of Dian Fossey, who went to Africa in 1967 to do a National Geographic article on a vanishing breed of gorillas. Her magnificent obsession is magnificently portrayed.
Gospel According to St. Matthew, TheThis film shows the life of Jesus, simple and unadorned, according to the Gospel of Matthew. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, a Marxist filmmaker, was invited by the Catholic Church to a conference on film, Put up in a monastery during the conference, he had only the Bible to read. After reading Matthew's Gospel, he decided to make this classic film.
Graduate, TheBenjamin, a recent college graduate, with no idea of what to do in life, falls into an affair with his boss's wife. When he winds up on a date with her daughter and falls for her, the mother's wrath erupts.
Grande Illusion, LaClass, anti-Semitism and injustice trap the two French soldiers, Marechal and Rosenthal, who are captured by the Germans in W.W.I.
Great Dictator, TheDictator Adenoid Hynkel of Tomania is challenged by his rival Benzino Napaloni of Bacteria in Chaplin's first talkie. Chaplin plays two roles: the Jewish barber and Dictator Hynkel.
Handmaid's Tale, TheIn a right-wing fundamentalists successor state to the shattered United States, a woman who has been reduced to a reproductive slave of a rich military family, joins a rebellion.
Guilty by SuspicionA fictional Hollywood director (Robert de Niro) finds himself hauled up before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the 1950s. First he is asked about his own involvement in the Communist Party in the 1930s. Then he is asked to "name names" of friends of his who are now, or ever have been, members of the Communist Party or any organizations the committee deems to be its front groups.
Heimat - Eine deutsche ChronikA family in the town of Schabbach on the Rhine goes from 1920s poverty to the rise of Hitler and W.W.II to West Germany prosperity.
Zweite Heimat, die - Chronik einer Jugend in 13 FilmenThe story of Hermann Simon of Schabbach and his friends, from the start of university to the end of his marriage, from 1962 to 1972.
Henry VOn his way to the Battle of Agincourt against the French, Henry V rallies his dispirited troops and confronts his own doubts.
Hiding Place, TheTwo sisters, Corrie and Betsie ten Boom, shelter Jews in Holland during the German occupation and are discovered sent to a concentration camp.
If You Love This PlanetDr. Helen Caldicott, president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, talks about the dangers of nuclear war and what we can do about it, in this award-winning documentary.
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In CountryA girl whose father died as a US soldier in Vietnam, finds his diary and comes to terms with his life and that war.
Incident at OglalaOn July 26, 1975, a shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota left two FBI agents dead. With less-than-convincing evidence, Leonard Peltier was found guilty and imprisoned for the crime.
Jack LondonAuthor Jack London's life unrolls on the screen, from cannery row to the open seas, from Yukon prospecting to university, and oh, those women he loved along the way!
Jesus of MontrealA small group of young actors put on a Passion Play in Montreal. After resistance from the Church, and rejection by society, their story begins to parallel that of Jesus and his disciples.
JFKThe story of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's last days to his assassination in Dallas Texas on November 22, 1963, and the strange events shortly thereafter, told from the point of view of New Orleans attorney Jim Garrison, who believed Kennedy to be the victim of a conspiracy .
Joe HillThe story of the folk hero of the American labor movement, from his arrival from Sweden to his joining the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W. or Wobblies), to his death in front of a Salt Lake City firing squad. Joe Hill was convicted of murder charge which many now believe to be false.
Johnny Got His GunA US soldier, disabled in W.W. I, regains consciousness and relives his life through dreams and memories.
Johnny ShilohA young man loses his family in the Civil War and tags along with the army.
Jonah, Who will be 25 in the Year 2000 (Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000)In Geneva, burned-out 60s political activist revives enough to warn some farmers that a land developer is about to swindle them out of their farm. He and the secretary who tipped him off befriend the farm family, and start a commune with their own school for Jonah.
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of ResistanceThis National Film Board documentary shows the Native side of the stand-off at Oka, Quebec in 1990 between the Mohawks on one side and the Surete du Quebec and the Canadian Army on the other.
Killing Fields, TheDith Pran, aide to NYT journalist Sydney Schanberg in Vietnam, stays behind as the war ends, and the horror of Pol Pot's Cambodia unfolds.
Kiss of the Spider Woman, TheThis classic film portrays a gay man and a political prisoner locked together in a cell of a South American prison. William Hurt won an Oscar for his performance.
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed (Les armes de l'esprit / Weapons of the Spirit)Pastor Andre Trocm� and the other Huguenots in Le Chambon, France, shelter thousands of Jews from the Nazis during W.W. II.
Link to article by Jeremy Pine Purchase from French American Cultural Services Educational Aid
Life of Brian, TheBrian, a Jew living under Roman occupation, joins the Judean People's Front (challenged by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Judea), and has a hard time persuading people he is not the Messiah. Monty Python's hi-jinx are shown here in high gear.
Little Big ManJack Crab, and adopted Indian now 121 years old, reminisces about his days as a scout for General George Custer and the sole survivor of Custer's Last Stand.
Lord of the FliesBritish schoolboys, shipwrecked on an island, are divided. Half follow the civilized, rational Ralph and half follow Jack, the leader of the tribe of militarists.
Lost HorizonA small plane carrying a British diplomat (Ronald Colman) and a small group of people crash-land in the Himalayas, in the valley of Shangra-la, which offers a life away from the world of cares and corruption.
Man for All Seasons, AWhen King Henry VIII asked Lord Chancellor Thomas More to support a break with Rome and the establishment of the Church of England, More refused, and stayed loyal to his church all the way to the executioner.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the MediaWorld-famous linguist and American's one-man political opposition Noam Chomsky argues that big business and the US government combine to shape the news. As examples, he uses the focus on the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Kampuchea and the neglect of the slaughter of East Timorese by US-backed Indonesian troops.
Margaret's MuseumA young girl, who lost her father and brother to the Cape Breton mines, meets a man she adores, partly because he refuses to work in the mines. When hard times make weaken his promise, Margaret takes her revenge in a unique and chilling manner.
M*A*S*HThe escapades of an emergency medical unit in the Korean War show the pathos of war and one of the few ways to survive it.
MatewanWest Virginia miners, hard up against the bosses in the 1920s, are united by a former Wobbly who brings together the white, African-American, and Italian workers.
Medium CoolReal footage of the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968 and the police attack upon the demonstrators outside is used in this film showing the story of a fictional TV reporter who remains coolly detached from all these events he's filming.
Midnight Clear, AAt Christmas, 1944, US and German soldiers lose the desire to fight and change to the mock combat of a snowball fight.
Milagro Beanfield War, TheA rugged individualist in New Mexico decides to stand up against the housing developers who are trying, by fair means or foul, to assemble the land his ancestors and his people have owned for centuries.
Mission, TheA Jesuit mission to the Indians in the jungles of Brazil in the 18th Century is threatened by Portuguese and Spanish colonists. The nonviolent resistance of one priest (Jeremy Irons) comes up against the cry for armed resistance by another missionary (Robert de Niro).
Mississippi BurningTwo FBI agents, one straight-arrow type and one Southern lawman, set out to solve the murders of two civil rights workers murdered during Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964.
Mosquito Coast, TheAn iconoclastic environmentalist and inventor moves his family from the United States to Central America, where he becomes the autocrat of his household empire.
Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonIdealistic young Jefferson Smith (James Stuart) is appointed to a U.S. Senate seat by the governor of his state to fill the term of a Senator who died in office. Once there, Smith challenges the corruption of the system that put him in power,
Nasty Girl, The (Das schreckliche Maedchen)A young woman in West Germany sets out in the 1970s to uncover the history of the town during the "braune Jahren" of the Hitler's Germany. Of course, no one in the town except the Mayor was ever a Nazi ..
NetworkThis satire by on television by Paddy Chayefsky casts Finch as a "mad prophet of the airwaves" who mesmerizes his audience.
Never Cry WolfSmith plays Farley Mowat, a tale-telling Canadian writer headed North to live among the wolves and eat mice.
Nine to Five (9 to 5)A dictatorial boss is locked out by his three women employees, who bring amazing efficiency to the plant - as long as their ex-chief is tied up.
1984After an atomic war, the world is carved up between three empires. London, the capital of Oceania, is ruled by a dictatorship which has total control over its citizens. Winston Smith, a bureaucrat, tries to escape with his lover, Julia.
Norma RaeNorma Rae, a textile worker in the South, summons all the courage in the world to contact a labour union organizer. Their struggle has just begun.
Oh! What a Lovely WarA brilliant, stinging expose of the jingoism of British society W.W.I
Olvidados, LosA young man named Pedro is led astray by a gang of youths in the festering slums of Mexico City.
On the BeachA lone submarine survives a nuclear war between the USA and the USSR.
PapillonHenri Charriere, "the butterfly", sets out to escape from Devil's Island despite the enormous odds against him.
Paths of Glory
PosseA group of African-American soldiers desert from the Spanish-American War and head west with stolen treasure.
Review by Susan Doll, Magill's Survey of Cinema
Pow-Wow HighwayTwo young Native men on the U.S. plains seek to rally their people. Philbert seeks mystical power through Native spirituality, and the other, a Vietnam War veteran named Buddy Red Bow, tries political organizing.
Private History of a Campaign That Failed, TheFifteen boys from Hannibal, Missouri, face the horrors of war. A dramatization of "A War Prayer" opens the film. Mark Twain, who was a deserter from a Confederate unit in the Civil War and became an anti-slavery writer, wrote the original story.
Quiz ShowA young lawyer working for Congress in the 1950s discovers that a famous TV quiz show is fixed (based on the true story of the $64,000 Question).
Red Badge of CourageA soldier in the Civil War vacillates between courage and cowardice, and rallies to fight again.
Return of the Secaucus Seven, TheA group of young anti-war protesters from the 1960s get together on the anniversary of their arrest - not for sitting in at a draft board, as was their plan, but for a traffic offence on the way to the protest.
Roger and MeMoore tries to interview the Chairman of General Motors, Roger Smith, to ask him why he closed GM's plant in Flint, Michigan, eliminating thousands of jobs in that city. The footage of a Fourth of July parade in Flint, that of a woman in Flint trying to make a living selling "Rabbits: Pets or Meat", and that of Smith giving a speech at GM's Christmas Party are mischievously intermingled.
Roi de coeur (King of Hearts)A British soldier sent into a French town in W.W. I to disarm a bomb finds himself locked up in the town's insane asylum, where the inmates, less insane than the populace during war, crown him the "King of Hearts".
RomeroBishop Romero of El Salvador spoke out against the Death Squads of the government. His reward was martyrdom.
Rosa LuxemburgFrom 1898 to 1919, Polish-born Rosa Luxemburg, the hero of German Social Democrats, worked against ware and for a socialist society. Ironically, she and Karl Liebknecht were murdered in Berlin on January 15, 1919, by Freie Korps troops under the first Social Democratic government Germany ever had.
Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming, TheA Russian submarine lands off New England during the Cold War and negotiates with the town.
Salt of the EarthStriking workers in the Empire Zinc mine in New Mexico are faced with the extra oppression of Mexican-Americans and women. Written, directed, and produced by members of the Hollywood Ten.
SalvadorA freelance journalist goes into the jungles of El Salvador to interview the rebels and gets caught between them and the government.
Schindler's ListGerman businessman Oskar Schindler saves more than 1,000 Jews from the Holocaust in Germany.
Search, TheAfter W.W. II, a boy is cared for in Berlin by Clift while the boy's mother searches for him in Displaced Persons' camps across Europe.
Sergeant YorkA pacifist, drafted in the US Army in W.W.I, turns into a military hero.
Shawshank Redemption, TheBanker Andy Defresne, sent to Shawshank Prison in the 1940s for the murder of his wife and her lover, wins the respect of Red, the prison's black marketeer, and finally of all his fellow prisoners.
ShenandoahA farmer in Virginia tries valiantly to keep out of the Civil War.
SilkwoodA woman who works in a nuclear parts factory in Oklahoma discovers some strange goings-on and winds up dead in an accident that looks like a set-up.
Slaughterhouse FiveBilly Pilgrim emerges from a POW camp in Dresden after the fire-bombing in W.W. II to become adrift in time.
Sorrow and the Pity, The (Le Chagrin et la Pitie)The stories of survivors of W.W. II in Clermont-Ferrand, France - both collaborators and resisters to Petain and the German Occupiers.
Soylent GreenSet in the year 2022, an investigator (Charlton Heston) who is going after a murderer, discovers an astounding secret which has been hushed up by the government.
SpartacusSpartacus, a slave trained as a gladiator, was forced to fight to the death with an opponent around 71 B.C. His opponent spared him, and Spartacus went on to lead a slave revolt which spread over half of Italy.
Summer of My German Soldier, TheIn Georgia in W.W.II, a teenage Jewish girl and an escaped German POW start a wartime romance.
To Kill a MockingbirdA white Southern lawyer defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Uns et les autres. Les (Bolero) Three generations of dancers from the USA, France, Germany and the Soviet Union live through W.W. I to the Holocaust to the 1960s.
Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt)Solveig Dommartin falls in with some bank robbers and then escapes with William Hurt, who is being pursued by the CIA on a trumped-up charge because the agency wants to get hold of his instruments, which record dreams and give sight to the blind.
ViridianaA novice nun named Viridiana rejects the assaults of her uncle and opens her house to all the poor, the beggars and the destitute of the town - with unexpected results.
WalkaboutTwo British schoolchildren, stranded in the Outback, join an Aboriginal man on his Walkabout, a ritual banishment from the tribe.
War, TheA Southern US veteran, psychologically injured by the Vietnam War, tries to teach his children peace.
Way We Were, TheThe straight-arrow college guy falls for radical Katie in a romance that spans the 1930s and 40s in America.
WarszawaIn the winter of 1943, Stefania, a Christian Polish woman (Hanna Schygullla) hides two Jews, Alek and Fryda (Julie Deply and Lambert Wilson). But Fryda, suspicious and jealous, goes on to risk the trio's lives.
Wings of Desire (Der Himmel ueber Berlin)Two angels whose turf is Berlin, disguise themselves as ageing hippie men with shabby overcoats, ponytails and smiling faces. One angel, Damiel (Bruno Ganz), tires of his life of observing, recording, and consoling, but never intervening, and above all, never feeling. Damiel is tempted to try mortality by ex-angel Peter Falk, an actor in Berlin to do an anti-war movie about Nazi Germany. Damiel gets his wish to become mortal and comes crashing to earth beside the Berlin Wall. He searches for the mortal he has fallen in love with, a woman named Marion (Solveig Dommartin), a beautiful trapeze artist in a two-bit circus.
Weisse Rose, Die (The White Rose)In Munich in 1942, two students, Hans and Sophie Scholl, join an underground resistance group against Hitler. They distribute leaflets and make contacts in other cities. Then the Gestapo finds their trail.
World Apart, AA 13-year-old white girl, growing up in South Africa in the 1960s, has all the usual trappings of power - except that her parents are anti-apartheid activists. Her father is forced to flee the country, and her mother goes to work for an anti-government newspaper.