“Strange Victory” is about racial bias in post World War II America. Folowing “Native Land” in Leo Hurwitz’ filmography, it uses some of the same techniques: dramatized scenes interspersed with scenes of compilation news reel footage, and scenes of evocative imagery. An epilogue about the civil rights movement, added in 1964 makes the arc of the film more complete
Hanna Ranch is the story of three generations on a family ranch in rural Colorado, that centers on visionary eco-rancher, Kirk Hanna, whose fight carried on by his amazingly determined wife and two daughters.::Anonymous...
In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a fourteen year period they were the heartbeat on every hit from M...
After viewing this provocative documentary, you will never look at Wikipedia the same way. Filmmakers Scott Glosserman and Nic Hill engagingly explore the history and cultural implications of one of the most traveled and...
The story of Gianni Agnelli, the legendary Italian industrialist and playboy, as told by family, lovers, professional confidants, and rivals.::prizepatrol...
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The Battered Bastards of Baseball is one of baseball's last great, unheralded true stories. In 1973, Hollywood veteran Bing Russell (best known for playing Deputy Clem on "Bonanza") created the only independent baseball ...
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He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower i...
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'I Need You to Kill,' follows three American comics - Chad Daniels, Pete Lee, and Tom Segura on a six show tour through three of the world's newest stand-up comedy scenes: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Macau. The film explor...
Any film where the commentary contains those words has got something wrong with it. Nevertheless and notwithstanding the often clunking commentary and a continual and continually irritating musical score, there’s a lot that’s interesting about Strange Victory. It’s a warning about the future looking at children in a maternity ward, reminiscent of Diary for Timothy but much more didactic, much more determined and (alas) much more confidently marxist. It looks at the presence force and effect of racism in the USA, at segregation and Jim Crow, at quotas at universities, at “restricted~” communities, at lynchings. There’s a fictionalised scenario in the middle where a black ex-pilot cannot get a job flying in the USA. The director was perceptive; he could see that things wouldn’t be the same, unfortunately his solution- communism- failed and the USA could change and adapt. There might be new prejudices and new problems but they are different and and have different effects. All the same, worth having a look at for the driving force of the images, some effective rhetoric, some astonishing visual images and superb archive footage.
Any film where the commentary contains those words has got something wrong with it. Nevertheless and notwithstanding the often clunking commentary and a continual and continually irritating musical score, there’s a lot that’s interesting about Strange Victory. It’s a warning about the future looking at children in a maternity ward, reminiscent of Diary for Timothy but much more didactic, much more determined and (alas) much more confidently marxist. It looks at the presence force and effect of racism in the USA, at segregation and Jim Crow, at quotas at universities, at “restricted~” communities, at lynchings. There’s a fictionalised scenario in the middle where a black ex-pilot cannot get a job flying in the USA. The director was perceptive; he could see that things wouldn’t be the same, unfortunately his solution- communism- failed and the USA could change and adapt. There might be new prejudices and new problems but they are different and and have different effects. All the same, worth having a look at for the driving force of the images, some effective rhetoric, some astonishing visual images and superb archive footage.