Part 14 (continued)

The top rad movies available on DVD

by Dr. John Ruhland

The movies on this list are well suited to watching as a group to stimulate political discussions. All can be found on DVD through independent video stores. In Seattle, try Scarecrow Video. A few are also available at Seattle Public Library.

*highly recommended ** must see

*LION OF THE DESERT Moustapha Akkad, 1981. Bedouins fight off Musollini's fascist forces in Libya before and during WWII

*MAD CITY Costa-Gavras, 1997. Robert DeNiro. A reporter sees the damage done by mainstream media, yet is trapped within the system.

MALCOLM X Spike Lee, 1992. The life of the great American activist.

MANUFACTURING CONSENT Noam Chomsky. Examines propaganda and why Americans think as we do.

*THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA Dziga Vertov, 1929. Documents the young Soviet Union soon after the Russian Revolution.

*THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE John Frankenheimer, 1962. Anti-Communist brainwashing.

**MARAT SADE Peter Weiss, 1966. A brilliant narrative history of the French Revolution.

MEDIUM COOL Haskell Wexler, 1969. Filming caught the radical protest at the 1968 Democratic Convention.

THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY The History Channel. Five-part documentary.

*MEPHISTO Istvan Szabo, 1981. The lure of success causes an actor to sell out and become a propaganda tool in Nazi Germany.

*METROPOLIS Fritz Lang, 1926. Visionary look at the future under capitalistic exploitation.

*MISS EVERS BOYS Joseph Sargent, 1997. The infamous US Government Tuskegee Syphillis Experiment on black men.

MODERN TIMES Charlie Chaplin. Humorous satirical look at technology's effect on workers.

*MOTHER V I Pudovkin, 1926. The mother of a revolutionist becomes radicalized herself during the failed 1905 Russian Revolution.

**NANOOK OF THE NORTH Robert J. Flaherty, 1922. Documentary of an Eskimo Family.

**NORMA RAE Martin Ritt, 1979. Sally Field. Delightful and moving story of a young woman who becomes a union organizer in order to help her community.

*OCTOBER (TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD) Sergei Eisenstein, 1927. Feb. to Oct. 25 in Russian Revolution.

**THE OFFICIAL STORY Luis Puenzo, 1985. Wealthy Argentine woman learns that her adopted child was likely taken from a young woman, one of the disappeared murdered by the US-supported fascist government.

100 KILOS R. Seville, 2000. US government involved in drug trafficking as part of the Iran Contra scandal. *OPEN CITY (ROMA, CITA ABIERTA) Roberto Rossellini, 1946. Survival in WWII Gestapo-controlled Rome.

*THE PARALLAX VIEW Alan Pakula, 1974. Warren Beatty. Thriller showing a technique used for political assassination. Many parallels with the JFK assassination.

*PATHS OF GLORY Stanley Kubrick, 1957. Kirk Douglas. A stinging indictment of military politics.

**QUE VIVA MEXICO! Sergio Eisentstein, 1931, re-released in 1979. A less political version is entitled MEXICAN FANTASY.

*RED BEARD Akira Kurosawa, 1965. A doctor, at first disgusted by his destitute patients, begins to cherish them.

*ROSEWOOD John Singleton, 1997. Based on a true story of a town owned by African Americans which is razed by ignorant whites in 1923 Florida.