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I know we have a couple of threads in Movies and TV, but I think we need a running list because there are so many new good ones coming out.

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"All In" on Amazon, 

"Capital" on Netflix

"KIss the Ground" on Netflix

"The Choice 2020:  Trump v. Biden"  PBS

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-choice-2020-trump-vs-biden-l0dutq/

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55 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

I know we have a couple of threads in Movies and TV, but I think we need a running list because there are so many new good ones coming out.

I will start with

"All In" on Amazon, 

"Capital" on Netflix

"KIss the Ground" on Netflix

"The Choice 2020:  Trump v. Biden"  PBS

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-choice-2020-trump-vs-biden-l0dutq/

I enjoyed Kiss the Ground.  It's not the best doc I've seen on the subject but it was good.

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Sorry for the multiple posts but while watching “Agents of Chaos”, I looked up Gibney’s Twitter account and found the info about his new coronavirus documentary and this -

The new documentary on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi is now available for free on YouTube.

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It seems a bit hokey as a setup, but is very powerful the further it goes.   There was a lot I didn't know (which isn't saying much), but I'm hoping some of our folks with more constitutional law background watch it and chime in.   I assume as long as she has been doing it if there were many fallacies, she'd been roasted by now.  

 

 

Also Frost/Nixon-   It's actually the story of that specific interview and how it came about and how it changed things. I was in middle school when it went down, and Langella's version of Nixon is good,  but I kept finding myself trying to remember how Nixon really sounded, his mannerisms.  But after a while I went with it.  Any recommendations on good docs about Nixon's life and career?

 

 

 

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..also by Oliver Stone...The Untold History of the United States...A 10 part series from Teddy to Obama.

Regardless of what you think of Stone's catalog of work in general, this series provides an excellent "other side" to the whitewashed version we learned in history class.

FDR through Truman is especially good.

 

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Bryan Cranston kills it as LBJ.  It covers the first year of his presidency as he tries to unite or at least appease enough conservatives, liberals, and civil rights leaders to pass the Civil Rights Act while also trying to win reelection.  Streaming on HBO Max.

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Haven't seen this, but getting good reviews. Even if it does suck, Fletcher gets to have sex with Brooke Baldwin, so he's already a winner. 

I lived through the Trump presidency. I don’t need to see a documentary about it. There was an episode of Frontline on the Trump presidency a week or two ago and I couldn’t watch it. I hate the sound of his voice and it sort of hurts just to look at him. Better to read a book. I still haven’t gotten around to reading Rage yet. 

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I'd have to say "Anal Extremists 2."  It is a subtle but harsh commentary on how all of us, as Americans, are taking it up the tailpipe from the political class.  At least, that's the way I interpreted it.  I'm a pretty sophisticated film consumer, though...so the rest of you might not have gotten it.

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Necro bump:

I'm interested in what others are finding.   Here are a few of mine from recently.

Netflix's Ron Howard documentary, Web of Make Believe.  Particularly 2 and 3 from a current political standpoint.

Amazon:  Ukraine is not a brothel.  The story of Femen and its unique fight against patriarchy, with a little twist to it.

Amazon:  Iraq's Secret Sex Trade (2019 version) and Kids Caught in the Crackdown (1983 version).  This stuff is chilling and hits close to home as the US is pushed further towards extremist Christian Nationalism.

 

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“Who We Are” is on Netflix, and should be required viewing.  It’s a history of white supremacy in America, told through a lecture cut with numerous real-world interactions. 

As a movie, it drags in a couple places, but it also has several powerful and memorable moments- like visiting the site of a slave auction and looking at leg irons designed to fit a small child (could any object be more immoral than that?).

I think it is important to hear his statements at 1:12 in the trailer.  
 

 

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So I watched Jasper Texas on Amazon last night.    I was torn because it had Jon Voight in it, and I despise him.  I was surprised the role he played and can not comprehend how any human can play that role in that show and still be a crazy Trump follower.   It wasn't the best, but it wasn't horrible either.  Had a different twist on it since it focused more on the outside forces and how the small town dealt with them.

 

The second one I watched was "The Cotton Picking Truth, Still on the Plantation."     It's older, and the production quality is not great, but it has some powerful messages and does a good job talking about reparations.  Because it is so dated, it really points out what we were on the cusp of when it comes to civil rights, and how far we are being pushed back.   

 

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On 6/29/2022 at 8:41 PM, Paul Wesley said:

“Who We Are” is on Netflix, and should be required viewing.  It’s a history of white supremacy in America, told through a lecture cut with numerous real-world interactions. 

As a movie, it drags in a couple places, but it also has several powerful and memorable moments- like visiting the site of a slave auction and looking at leg irons designed to fit a small child (could any object be more immoral than that?).

I think it is important to hear his statements at 1:12 in the trailer.  
 

 

I happened upon this over the weekend. It was really powerful even though I was familiar with most of it already.

I ended up on another documentary which went into the relationship between Malcolm X and Muhammed Ali. Two fascinating guys decades ahead of the times.

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I happened upon this over the weekend. It was really powerful even though I was familiar with most of it already.

I ended up on another documentary which went into the relationship between Malcolm X and Muhammed Ali. Two fascinating guys decades ahead of the times.

One Night in Miami is a good primer to those chemistries.  Toss in Jim Brown and Sam Cooke too.  

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On 6/29/2022 at 9:15 PM, henrygandorf said:

through ep4 of this and enjoying it quite a bit.  ton of people in it, and a lot more of a watergate story than just a martha mitchell biopic (so far).

 

I'm about 4 episodes in.   I always figured these guys like Liddy, Hunt and all the other operatives were upper tier at their spy craft.  Amazing how inept they really were.  But it also points out the gradual evolvement of the hate that fuels the GOP above all else.  Starting with Dean's neon sign about communism.  This gaslighting has been going on for half a century.  

 

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Speaking of coal strikes, Pride is a good one.  1984, true story, gay activists raise money and protest to support coal miners striking in Wales, many of whom are not terribly sympathetic to the plight of homosexuals.  It touches on several issues, particularly taking the first step in trying to build a coalition with people who were previously hostile to you.  (I think it probably has a healthy layer of candy coating to make it more digestible, but it's still interesting). 

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