{{Short description|Films with political themes}} {{Multiple issues| {{more citations needed|date=March 2009}} {{more footnotes needed|date=March 2009}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} '''Political cinema''', in the narrow sense, refers to cinema products that portray events or social conditions, either current or historical, through a partisan perspective, with the intent of informing or agitating the spectator.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
Political cinema exists in different forms, such as documentaries, short films, feature films, experimental films, and even animated cartoons.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
==Concept== In the narrow sense of the term, ''political cinema'' refers to films that do not hide their political stance. In this sense, they differ from other films not because they are political, but because of the way in which their politics is presented. As such, a film does not necessarily have to be pure propaganda to be considered 'political cinema'.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
The broader meaning of 'political cinema' is argued to be that "all films are political;"<ref>Zimmer, Christian, and Lee Leggett. 1974. "All Films Are Political." ''SubStance'' 3(9):123–36. {{doi|10.2307/3684517}}. {{JSTOR|3684517}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Schoenbrun|first=Jane|title=All Movies are Political Movies. We Need to Do Better|url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/100531-all-movies-are-political-movies-we-need-to-do-better/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=Filmmaker Magazine|date=9 November 2016|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Welle (www.dw.com)|first=Deutsche|title=Cinema is Always Political, Says Star Director Costa-Gavras {{!}} DW {{!}} 03.02.2008|url=https://www.dw.com/en/cinema-is-always-political-says-star-director-costa-gavras/a-3099374|access-date=2021-03-10|website=DW.COM|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>Wayne, Mike. 2001. ''Political Film: The Dialectics of Third Cinema''. London: Pluto Press. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bF6tXlB4HQwC&dq=Political+cinema&pg=PA1 p. 1].</ref> even films that are ostensibly 'apolitical' and escapist, merely promising 'entertainment' as an escape from everyday life, can be understood as fulfilling a political function. The authorities in Nazi Germany, for instance, knew this very well and organized a large production of deliberately escapist films.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} In other 'entertainment' films, such as westerns, the ideological bias is evident in the distortion of historical reality. A "classical" western would rarely portray black cowboys, although there were a great many of them in the American frontier. Hollywood cinema, which can be understood as the dominant industry of cinema, was often accused of misrepresenting black, female, gay, and working-class people.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} More fundamentally, not only are the contents of individual films political, but the institution of cinema itself can also be taken as political as well. A huge number of people congregate, not to act together or to talk to each other, but to sit silently, after having paid for it, to be spectators separated from each other. Guy Debord, a critic of the 'society of the spectacle', for whom "separation is the alpha and omega of the spectacle," was therefore also violently opposed to cinema, even though he would make several films portraying his ideas.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
In order to differentiate between the narrow and broad notions of 'political cinema', film scholar Ewa Mazierska suggested to divide all such films into the categories of conformist or oppositional and marked or unmarked:<ref name=":0">Mazierska, Ewa. 2014. "[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305756380_Introduction_Marking_Political_Cinema Introduction: Marking Political Cinema]." ''Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media'' 55(1):35–44. {{doi|10.13110/framework.55.1.0033}}.</ref>
* Conformist films "accept the political status quo;" while oppositional films reject it. * Marked political films are willing to reveal to their viewers the party/ideology "they serve"; while unmarked films prefer to hide it.
From this point of view, it is the ''oppositional'' and ''marked'' political films that the most viewers regard as 'political', as discussions about politics in film typically single out these two categories.<ref name=":0" />
== History ==
===Cinema, World War I and its aftermath=== Before World War I French cinema had a big share of the world market. Hollywood used the collapse of the French production to establish its hegemony. Ever since it has dominated world film production not only economically but has transformed cinema into a means to disseminate American values.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
In Germany the Universum Film AG, better known as UFA, was founded to counter the perceived dominance of American propaganda. During the Weimar Republic many films about Frederick II of Prussia had a conservative nationalistic agenda, as Siegfried Kracauer and other film critics noted.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
Communists like Willi Münzenberg saw the Russian cinema as a model of political cinema. Soviet films by Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov and others combined a partisan view of the bolshevist regime with artistic innovation which also appealed to western audiences.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
===National Socialism=== {{Unbalanced section|date=March 2021}} Leni Riefenstahl has never been able or willing to face her responsibility as a chief propagandist for National-Socialism, i.e., Nazism. Almost unlimited resources and her undeniable talent led to results, which, despite their hideous aims, still fascinate some aficionados of film. While there is much controversy around her work, it is generally accepted that Riefenstahl's main commitment was to filmmaking, rather than to the Nazi Party. Proof of this might be seen by the portrayal of Jesse Owens' victory in her film about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, ''Olympia'' (1938), and in her later work, mostly on her photographic expeditions to Africa.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
The same is certainly not true of the violent anti-Semitic films of Fritz Hippler. Other Nazi political films made propaganda for so-called euthanasia.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
=== Third Cinema === {{Main|Third Cinema}}
=== Recent films === Especially in the last decades of the 20th century, many filmmakers considered focusing on remembrance of and reflection upon major collective crimes such as the Holocaust, slavery and disasters such as the Chernobyl disaster to be their political and moral duty.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
====Globalization and related world issues==== Political cinema of the 21st century seems to focus on controversial topics such as globalization, AIDS, and other health-care concerns, issues pertaining to the environment, such as world energy resources and consumption and climate change, and other complex matters pertaining to discrimination, capitalism, terrorism, war, peace, religious and related forms of intolerance, and civil and political rights, as well as other human rights.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
==Forms== The form has always been an important concern for political filmmakers. While some, like pioneering Lionel Rogosin, argued that radical films, in order to liberate the imagination of the spectator, have to break not only with the content but also with the form of Dominant cinema, the falsely reassuring clichés and stereotypes of conventional narrative film making, other directors such as Francesco Rosi, Costa Gavras, Ken Loach, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee or Lina Wertmüller preferred to work within mainstream cinema to reach a wider audience.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
The subversive tradition dates back at least to the French avant-garde of the 1920s. Even in his more conventional films Luis Buñuel stuck to the spirit of outright revolt of L'Âge d'or. The bourgeoisie had to be expropriated and all its values destroyed, the surrealists believed. This spirit of revolt is also present in all films of Jean Vigo.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
==Selected filmography== : ''The following is a listing of notable political films or political films made by notable directors'': {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center; float:left; margin-right:1em;" |+ Political filmography |- ! scope="col" style="width:8em" | Title ! scope="col" style="width:8em" | Year ! scope="col" style="width:8em" | Director(s) ! scope="col" style="width:8em" | Country ! scope="col" style="width:8em" | Type of film ! scope="col" style="width:8em" | Notes |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The Birth of a Nation'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1915 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| D. W. Griffith | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>"[https://www.filmsite.org/birt.html Birth of a Nation]." ''filmsite.org''.</ref><ref><blockquote>Griffith's highly controversial film, which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan, is widely considered to be a masterpiece due to its impact on the development of cinema. The basic structure consists of a description of an idealized lost idyll ("the Old South"), the disruption of this order during reconstruction post-Civil War, and the restoration of white supremacy, which is shown a legitimate goal that unites the former enemies. In the end, the leader of the KKK secures his private happiness too and the alleged idyll is restored.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</blockquote></ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Stachka'' (''Strike'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1925 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Sergei Eisenstein | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Soviet Union | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Bronenosets Potyomkin'' (''Battleship Potemkin'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1925 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Sergei Eisenstein | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Soviet Union | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Padenie dinastii Romanovykh'' (''The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1927 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Esfir Shub | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Soviet Union | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Chelovek s kino-apparatom'' (''Man with a Movie Camera'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1929 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Dziga Vertov | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Soviet Union | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Mädchen in Uniform'' (''Girls in Uniform'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1931 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Leontine Sagan | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Weimar Republic | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt?'' (''To Whom Does the World Belong?'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1932 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Slatan Dudow | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Weimar Republic | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Misère au Borinage'' (''Penury in the Borinage'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1934 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Joris Ivens and Henri Storck | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Belgium | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Short documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Militant film about the misery of Belgian coal miners. Cf. ''Les Enfants du borinage: Lettre à Henri Storck'', Director: Patric Jean, 2000.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Triumph des Willens'' (''Triumph of the Will'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1935 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Leni Reifenstahl | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Nazi Germany | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Propaganda | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Technically brilliant propaganda film about the Reichsparteitag in Nuremberg 1934.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Der ewige Jude. Ein Filmbeitrag zum Weltjudentum'' (''The Eternal Jew'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1940 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Fritz Hippler | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Nazi Germany | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Propaganda | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Virulently antisemitic.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Strange Victory'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1948 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Leo Hurwitz | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| East Germany | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>"He creates the image of an America that is complacent in its victory, prosperity and racism; the narrator warns: 'Nigger, kike, wop, take my advice and accept the facts – the world is already arranged for you' " (Barsam).<!--Still needs a specific page reference.--></ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Salt of the Earth'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1954 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Herbert Biberman | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Legendary documentary feature film about a strike in New Mexico. Not only do the workers have to fight against the company, but also their women against their macho attitude in order to be "allowed" to support them fully.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Ernst Thälmann – Sohn seiner Klasse'' (''Ernst Thälmann – Son of his Class'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1954 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| East Germany | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Kurt Maetzig | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Socialist realism – German Democratic Republic style.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse'' (''Ernst Thälmann – Leader of his Class'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1955 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| East Germany | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Kurt Maetzig | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Socialist realism – German Democratic Republic style.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''On the Bowery'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1956 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Lionel Rogosin | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Docufiction | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>An important film about alcoholism and the homeless in New York City.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''No Love for Johnnie'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1961 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Ralph Thomas | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United Kingdom | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The Mouse on the Moon'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1963 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Richard Lester | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United Kingdom | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The Cool World'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1964 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Shirley Clarke | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Focuses on the cruel reality of street life in the U.S.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Obyknovennyy fashizm'' (''Ordinary Fascism'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1965 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Mikhail Romm | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Soviet Union | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''La battaglia di Algeri'' (''The Battle of Algiers'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1966 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Gillo Pontecorvo | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Italy / Algeria | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Terra em Transe'' (''Entranced Earth'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1967 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Glauber Rocha | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Brazil | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite book |author1=Peter Rist |title=Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema |date=May 8, 2014 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=9780810880368 |page=550 |quote=Terra em Transe (Land in Anguish, aka Entranced Earth) is also one of the most sophisticated political films ever made.}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la Chinoise: un film en train de se fair'' (''The Chinese, or, rather, in the Chinese manner: a film in the making'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1967 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Jean-Luc Godard | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| France | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Titicut Follies'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1967 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Frederick Wiseman | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Wiseman shows the inhumane conditions at the Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts. The film was banned in the United States for over two decades.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''La hora de los hornos'' (''The Hour of the Furnaces'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1968 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Fernando Solanas | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Argentina | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''In the Year of the Pig'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1968 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Emile de Antonio | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>A compilation film about the Vietnam War.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Teorema'' (''Theorem'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1968 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Pier Paolo Pasolini | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Italy | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>The power of desire disrupts a rich family.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''if....'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1968 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Lindsay Anderson | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United Kingdom | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Z'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1969 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Costa-Gavras | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Algeria / France | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Yawar Mallku'' (''Blood of the Condor'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1969 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Jorge Sanjinés | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Bolivia | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Burn!'' (''Queimada'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1969 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Gillo Pontecorvo | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Italy / France | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Salesman'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1969 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Albert and David Maysles<br />Charlotte Zwerin | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Four men try to sell the Bible; one of the most important films of direct cinema.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto'' (''Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1970 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Elio Petri | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Italy | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Le Chagrin et la Pitié'' (''The Sorrow and the Pity'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1970 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Marcel Ophüls | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| France<br />West Germany<br />Switzerland | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Politically a pathbreaking documentary about collaboration in France during the German occupation.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- |''Ghoroub wa Shorouq'' (''Sunset and Sunrise'') |1970 |Kamal El Sheikh |Egypt |Feature |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Remembering Kamal El-Sheikh: Egypt's pioneer of suspense - Screens - Arts & Culture |url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/32/359279/Arts--Culture/Film/Remembering-Kamal-ElSheikh-Egypts-pioneer-of-suspe.aspx |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=Ahram Online}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?'' (''Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1970 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| West Germany | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Concerns the humiliating madness of ordinary life.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt'' (''It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1971 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Rosa von Praunheim | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Germany | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>This film started the second gay movement in Germany.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Wanda'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1971 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Barbara Loden | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''La classe operaia va in paradiso'' (''The Working Class Goes to Heaven'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1971 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Elio Petri | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Italy | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Μέρες του '36'' (''Days of '36'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1972 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Theo Angelopoulos | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Greece | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Il Caso Mattei'' (''The Mattei Affair'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1972 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Francesco Rosi | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Italy | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Sambizanga'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1972 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Sarah Maldoror | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Democratic Republic of the Congo | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Follows the liberation movement in Angola.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''La Société du Spectacle'' (''The Society of the Spectacle'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1974 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Guy Debord | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| France | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Angst essen Seele auf'' (''Ali: Fear Eats the Soul'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1974 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| West Germany | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles'' (''Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1975 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Chantal Akerman | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Belgium / France | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=uPtuaV7IAt0C&pg=PT140 |title=Cult Cinema - Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton - Google Boeken |page=140 |date=2012-03-30 |isbn=9781444396430 |access-date=2015-02-20|last1=Mathijs |first1=Ernest |last2=Sexton |first2=Jamie }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elle.fr/Loisirs/Cinema/News/Chantal-Akerman-retour-sur-la-carriere-d-une-cineaste-discrete-3002285|title = Chantal Akerman : Retour sur la carrière d'une cinéaste influente - Elle|date = 7 October 2015}}</ref> |- |''Karnak'' |1975 |Ali Badrakhan |Egypt |Feature |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barakat |first=Shereif |date=2022-06-11 |title=Al-Karnak: The Film That Revealed Egypt’s Political Traumas {{!}} Egyptian Streets |url=https://egyptianstreets.com/2022/06/11/al-karnak-the-film-that-revealed-egypts-political-traumas/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |language=en-US}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'' (''Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 1975 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Pier Paolo Pasolini | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Italy / France | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''All the President's Men'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1976 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Alan J. Pakula | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Harlan County, USA'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1976 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Barbara Kopple | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Yarınsız Adam'' (''The Man Without Tomorrow'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1977 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Remzi Aydın Jöntürk | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Turkey | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Satılmış Adam'' (''The Sold Man'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1977 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Remzi Aydın Jöntürk | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Turkey | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Yıkılmayan Adam'' (''The Indestructible Man'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1978 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Remzi Aydın Jöntürk | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Turkey | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Baara'' (''Work'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1978 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Souleymane Cissé | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Mali | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align: center;" |''Sürü'' (''The Herd'') | style="text-align: center;" |1978 | style="text-align: center;" |Yılmaz Güney Zeki Ökten | style="text-align: center;" |Turkey | style="text-align: center;" |Feature | style="text-align: center;" | |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Reds'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1981 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Warren Beatty | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The Wave'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1981 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Alex Grasshoff | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-wave-v319825|title = The Wave (1981) - Alex Grasshoff | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie}}</ref> |- | style="text-align: center;" |''Missing'' | style="text-align: center;" |1982 | style="text-align: center;" |Costa-Gavras | style="text-align: center;" |United States | style="text-align: center;" |Feature | style="text-align: center;" | |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | ''Yol'' (''The Road'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 1982 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Şerif Gören<br />Yılmaz Güney | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Turkey / Switzerland | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | |- | style="text-align: center;" |''Duvar'' | style="text-align: center;" |1983 | style="text-align: center;" |Yılmaz Güney | style="text-align: center;" |Turkey / France | style="text-align: center;" |Feature | style="text-align: center;" | |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1984 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Greta Schiller | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/1984-vm455203|title=1984 (1984) - Michael Radford | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie|accessdate=11 February 2024|via=www.allmovie.com}}</ref> | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1984 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Michael Radford | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United Kingdom | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Shoah'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1985 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Claude Lanzmann | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| France | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Camp de Thiaroye'' (''The Camp of Thiaroye'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1988 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Ousmane Sembene<br />Thierno Faty Sow | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Senegal | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''American Dream'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1990 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Barbara Kopple | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States<br />United Kingdom | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''JFK'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1991 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Oliver Stone | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''In the Name of the Father'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1993 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Jim Sheridan | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/in-the-name-of-the-father-v123216|title = In the Name of the Father (1993) - Jim Sheridan | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Land and Freedom'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1995 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Ken Loach | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United Kingdom<br />Spain<br />Germany<br />Italy<br />France | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Lumumba'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2000 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Raoul Peck | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| France<br />Germany<br />Belgium<br />Haiti | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>A moving and very intelligent poetical reflection on the presence of apparently bygone hopes and disasters. {{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Intimacy'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2001 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Patrice Chéreau | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| France<br />United Kingdom<br />Germany<br />Italy | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Intense erotic film on solitude, alienated sexuality and an impossible love.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Jang Aur Aman'' (''War and Peace'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2002 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Anand Patwardhan | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| India | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>On nuclear madness in India and Pakistan and their efforts to imitate Big Brother, USA.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Gujarat: A Laboratory of Hindu Rashtra, Fascism''{{undue weight inline|date=March 2023}} | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2003 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Suma Josson | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| India | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2004 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Michael Moore | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Memoria del saqueo'' (''Social Genocide'') | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2004 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Fernando Solanas | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Argentina | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>A passionately partisan survey of the history of neoliberalism in Argentina.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Darwin's Nightmare'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2004 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Hubert Sauper | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Austria<br />France<br />Belgium | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Using the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria as an example, Sauper shows how Africa functions today, how famine, wars and aids, European "aid" and the ruthless plundering of African resources are connected.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''500 Years Later'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2005 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Owen Alik Shahadah | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United Kingdom<br />United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>An African American documentary on race and the social impact of slavery.</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Syriana'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2005 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Stephen Gaghan | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The Road to Guantánamo'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2006 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Michael Winterbottom<br />Mat Whitecross | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United Kingdom | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Docudrama | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The Last Communist'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2006 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Amir Muhammad | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Malaysia | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Documentary film based on the autobiography of Chin Peng, born in 1924, the last chairman of the forbidden Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) but this is not a conventional biographical film. Key elements in the film are the songs Hardesh Singh composed for the occasion. This is an often funny film about a difficult chapter in Malaysian history which is still taboo "back home".{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2006 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Heidi Specogna | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Switzerland | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''An Inconvenient Truth'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2006 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Davis Guggenheim | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Persepolis'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2007 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Marjane Satrapi<br />Vincent Paronnaud | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| France<br />Iran | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>Animated biographical film based on the graphic novel of the same name.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide''{{undue weight inline|date=March 2023}} | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2006 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Louie Lawless | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Canada | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>[http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/ Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust: The Untold Story of the Aboriginal Genocide] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050510005835/http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/ |date=2005-05-10 }}. ''Hidden from History.org''. Accessed 4 March 2009.</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Sicko'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2007 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Michael Moore | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''What Would Jesus Buy'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2007 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Morgan Spurlock | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The World Without US'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2008 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Mitch Anderson and Jason J. Tomaric | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref name=Amazon>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000Z961UO|title=''The World Without US'': Editorial Review|website=Amazon|date=13 January 2009|format=Web|access-date=2009-03-04|quote=[This 2008 documentary film is described as] 'a quick overview of the state of the world today, and a quick history lesson in how things have been going for the last 20 years or so, followed by a few things that seem very likely to occur if America decided to pull all of its military bases out of foreign countries and stop mucking about in foreign parts.'}}</ref><ref name=Andersonbio>{{cite web|author=Mitch Anderson|url=http://mitchanderson.com/MitchBioShort.htm|title=Mitch Anderson's Biography|format=Web|publisher=Mitch Anderson|access-date=2009-03-04|author-link=Mitch Anderson (director)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615145905/http://mitchanderson.com/MitchBioShort.htm|archive-date=2008-06-15}} Released in 2008, the documentary explores what might happen if the United States were to leave the international arena, rescind its global reach and become an isolationist nation for the first time since the early 20th century.</ref><ref name=WWU>Trailer and "About the film" at {{cite web|url=http://theworldwithoutus.com/index.htm |title=The World Without US (Home Page)|format=Web|access-date=2009-03-04}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Religulous'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2008 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Larry Charles | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Milk'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2008 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Gus Van Sant | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Capitalism: A Love Story'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2009 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Michael Moore | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein''{{undue weight inline|date=March 2023}} | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2009 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Nicolas Rossier<br />David Ridgen | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The Yes Men Fix the World''{{undue weight inline|date=March 2023}} | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2009 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Andy Bichlbaum<br />Mike Bonanno<br />Kurt Engfehr | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''Motherland'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2010 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Owen Alik Shahadah | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>An African documentary on the history and contemporary state of Africa and African people.</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2011 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Göran Hugo Olsson | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Sweden | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The Ides of March'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2011 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| George Clooney | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''ToryBoy The Movie''{{undue weight inline|date=March 2023}} | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2011 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| John Walsh | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United Kingdom | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''2016: Obama's America''{{undue weight inline|date=March 2023}} | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2012 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Dinesh D'Souza | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''No'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2012 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Pablo Larraín | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Chile<br />France<br />United States | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Feature | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/no-v565061|title = No (2012) - Pablo Larraín | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie}}</ref> |- | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| ''The Pervert's Guide to Ideology'' | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2012 | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Sophie Fiennes | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| United Kingdom | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Documentary | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>with Slavoj 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==See also== {{portal|Film|Journalism}} *Political films category *Cultural industry *African cinema *Documentary film *List of films dealing with Anarchism *Social criticism *Women's cinema
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
===Bibliography=== *Baldwin, James. [1976] 2000. ''The Devil Finds Work''. New York: Delta Trade Paperbacks (Dell Publishing). {{ISBN|0-385-33460-5}}. *Barnouw, Erik. 1993. ''Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film'' (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford UP. {{Isbn|0-19-507898-5|978-0-19-507898-5}}. (A useful introduction.) *Barsam, Richard M. 2003. ''Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film''. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. {{Isbn|0-393-97436-7|978-0-393-97436-2}}. (Book and CD-ROM eds.) *Daressa, Larry. 2008 May 10. "[https://newsreel.org/articles/Newsreel40.htm The Political Film and Its Audience in the Digital Age: Newsreel at Forty And Zero]." California Newsreel. *Rosenbaum, Jonathan. 1997. ''Movies as Politics''. University of California Press. {{ISBN|0-520-20615-0}}. *Unterburger, Amy L., ed. 1999. ''The St. James Women Filmmakers Encyclopedia: Women on the Other Side of the Camera''. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. {{Isbn|1-57859-092-2|978-1-57859-092-6}}. *Vogel, Amos. 2006. ''Film as a Subversive Art''. London: CT Editions. {{ISBN|1-933045-27-2}}. * Zaniello, Tom. 2003. ''Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor''. Cornell University Press. {{ISBN|0-8014-4009-2}}
==External links== *[http://documentaryisneverneutral.com/ Documentary Is Never Neutral] *[https://cinemapolitica.org/ Cinema Politica]
Category:Political films Cinema