Films that bring previously obscured truths about the political process to the attention of the public, showing for example how offices of public trust are used for private purposes.
FORMOSA BETRAYED DEPICTS THE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT IN TAIWAN In 1989, the Political Film Society voted A City of Sadness (Bei qing cheng shi) as the best political film at the East-West Center Film Festival. The film depicted the brutal takeover as the Nationalist China Army retreated from Mainland China to the island of Taiwan, killing […]
FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING DEPICTS NORTHERN IRELAND AT ITS WORST The title of the film Fifty Dead Men Walking, as explained at the end of the film, refers to the number of British police and soldiers whose lives were saved by Martin McGartland (played by Jim Sturgess), who spied for the British while working undercover
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Although the era of Queen Victoria is usually identified with sexual repression, The Young Victoria biopic focuses on her days as a swinger of sorts who gave birth to nine children after marrying Prince Albert of Belgium (played by Rupert Friend). Chronologically, the film begins in 1836, when Victoria (played by Emily Blunt) is seventeen, meets the
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STORM REVEALS THE POLITICS OF THE BOSNIAN WAR CRIMES TRIALS Heinous acts were committed in the Bosnian Civil War, so the UN Security Council set up a special war crimes tribunal to bring the major perpetrators to justice. The procedure was for a prosecutor’s office to compile information about persons to be tried from documents
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD—IF ONLY THEY COULD! Another installment in the capers of Andy Bichlbaum and Michael Bonnano, who codirect The Yes Men Fix the World, tells lies that should be true and upsets the elites as usual. First, they set up a website for Dow Chemical Company and await an invitation to
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