14 Best Dissent / Rebellion / Revolution films

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Into the Wild 2007,  R)
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The Strawberry Statement 1970,  R)
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The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie) 1972,  PG)
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Hair 1979,  PG)
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Pink Flamingos 1972,  NC-17)
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La Grande Bouffe (Blow-Out) (Blow Out) 1973,  NC-17)
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1900 (Novecento) 1976,  R)
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The Dreamers 2003,  NC-17)
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The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) 2003,  R)
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The Take 2004,  Unrated)
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Libertarias 1996,  Unrated)
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Memoria del saqueo (Social Genocide) 2004,  Unrated)
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Social Genocide (Memoria del saqueo) 2004,  Unrated)
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The Corporation 2003,  Unrated)
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Zeitgeist: The Movie 2007,  Unrated)
Zeitgeist: The Movie
Zeitgeist, the Movie is a no-profit 2007 documentary film by Peter Joseph

watch it for free, at http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Zeitgeist (from German Zeit- time and Geist- spirit) is "the spirit of the times" and/or "the spirit of the age." Zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and/or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambience, morals, and sociocultural direction or mood of an era (similar to the English word mainstream or trend).
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Zeitgeist: Addendum 2008,  Unrated)
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American Zeitgeist 2006,  Unrated)
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Les Amants reguliers (Regular Lovers) 2005,  Unrated)
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La Classe Operaia va in Paradiso (The Working Class Goes to Heaven) (Lulu the Tool) 1971,  Unrated)
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Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) 1970,  R)
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Trainspotting 1996,  R)
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The Obama Deception 2008,  Unrated)
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TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism 2006,  Unrated)
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Terrorstorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism 2006,  Unrated)
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Terrorstorm: 2nd Edition Updated and Expanded 2007,  Unrated)
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911: In Plane Site 2007,  Unrated)
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911 In Plane Site 2004,  Unrated)
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End Game: Blueprint for Global Enslavement 2007,  Unrated)
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911: The Road to Tyranny 2003,  Unrated)
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Land and Freedom 1995,  Unrated)
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Viva Zapata! 1952,  Unrated)
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Zapata - El sueño del héroe 2004,  Unrated)
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Emiliano Zapata 1970,  Unrated)
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Emiliano Zapata - Un Heroe Mexicano 2003,  Unrated)
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Ex Drummer 2007,  Unrated)
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SLC Punk 1998,  R)
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The War on Democracy 2007,  Unrated)
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Bush Family Fortunes - The Best Democracy Money Can Buy 2004,  Unrated)
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like 2000,  Unrated)
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1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) 1984,  R)
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1984 1956,  Unrated)
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1984 1954,  Unrated)
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V for Vendetta 2006,  R)
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Fahrenheit 451 2012,  Unrated)
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Fahrenheit 451 1966,  Unrated)
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Brazil 1985,  R)
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Fist in His Pocket (I pugni in tasca) 1965,  Unrated)
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Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media 1993,  Unrated)
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Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual (Manufacturing Reality) 2004,  Unrated)
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Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train 2004,  Unrated)
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The Century of the Self 2005,  Unrated)
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Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear 2004,  Unrated)
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Who Killed the Electric Car? 2006,  PG)
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The Occult History of the Third Reich 2004,  Unrated)
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Roger & Me 1989,  R)
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days 2005,  PG)
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Amen 2002,  PG)
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American Blackout 2006,  Unrated)
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Loose Change 2nd Edition 2005,  Unrated)
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Cavite 2005,  Unrated)
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Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers 2003,  Unrated)
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Escape from Alcatraz 1979,  PG)
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The Shawshank Redemption 1994,  R)
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Dead Poets Society 1989,  PG)
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Rebel Without a Cause 1955,  PG-13)
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Bonnie and Clyde 1967,  R)
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Zabriskie Point 1970,  R)
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Badlands 1973,  PG)
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Days of Heaven 1978,  PG)
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The Graduate 1967,  PG)
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Midnight Cowboy 1969,  R)
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Five Easy Pieces 1970,  R)
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Videocracy 2009,  Unrated)
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Citizen Berlusconi (The Prime Minister and the Press) 2003,  Unrated)
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Draquila - L'Italia che trema (Draquila - Italy Trembles) 2010,  Unrated)
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Darwin's Nightmare 2005,  Unrated)
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Battle in Seattle 2007,  R)
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We Feed the World 2005,  Unrated)
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Earthlings 2010,  Unrated)
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Dogma 1999,  R)
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I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA 2007,  Unrated)
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Maria Full of Grace 2003,  R)
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Your Mommy Kills Animals 2007,  R)
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Fast Food Nation 2006,  R)
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Unser täglich Brot (Our Daily Bread) 2005,  Unrated)
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Transamerica 2005,  R)
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I.O.U.S.A. 2008,  PG)
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Little Miss Sunshine 2006,  R)
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Jésus de Montréal (Jesus of Montreal) 1989,  R)
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The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain) 1986,  R)
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I Killed My Mother (J'ai tue ma mere) 2009,  Unrated)
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975,  R)
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A Clockwork Orange 1971,  R)
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La Haine (Hate) 1995,  R)
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Il Postino (The Postman) 1994,  PG)
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Cidade de Deus (City of God) 2002,  R)
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Full Metal Jacket 1987,  R)
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Tropa de Elite (The Elite Squad) 2008,  R)
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La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers) 1966,  Unrated)
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Central Station (Central do Brasil) 1998,  R)
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort) 2007,  R)
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Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (L'ennemi public n1) 2010,  R)
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Mesrine 1984,  Unrated)
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Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964,  PG)
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Ay, Carmela! 1990,  Unrated)
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Salvador Allende 2007,  Unrated)
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Sacco and Vanzetti (Sacco e Vanzetti) 1971,  PG)
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Sacco and Vanzetti 2007,  Unrated)
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Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Complex) 2008,  R)
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The Lives of Others 2006,  R)
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Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army(The Taking of Patty Hearst) 2004,  Unrated)
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Hacking Democracy 2006,  Unrated)
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The Weather Underground 2003,  Unrated)
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Salvador 2006,  Unrated)
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Le Fond de l'air est rouge (A Grin Without a Cat) (The Base of the Air Is Red) 1977,  Unrated)
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Punishment Park 1971,  R)
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Standard Operating Procedure 2008,  R)
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Sous les Bombes (Under the Bombs) 2007,  Unrated)
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One Day in September 1999,  R)
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L' Avocat de la Terreur (Terror's Advocate) 2007,  Unrated)
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Bigger, Stronger, Faster* 2008,  PG-13)
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The Shock Doctrine 2009,  Unrated)
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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price 2005,  R)
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Megacities 1999,  Unrated)
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 2004,  R)
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Hemp Revolution 1996,  Unrated)
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OilCrash 2006,  G)
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Baraka 1993,  Unrated)
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Emperor of Hemp: The Jack Herer Story 2000,  Unrated)
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Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance 1982,  Unrated)
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Naqoyqatsi (Naqoyqatsi: Life as War) 2002,  PG)
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Fuck (F*ck) 2005,  Unrated)
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Powaqqatsi 1988,  G)
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The Road To Guantanamo 2006,  R)
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Inside the Wire - Guantanamo 2009,  Unrated)
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Harold and Maude 1971,  PG)
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Rushmore 1998,  R)
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Donnie Darko 2001,  R)
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The Chumscrubber 2005,  R)
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American Beauty 1999,  R)
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2001: A Space Odyssey 1968,  G)
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Paths of Glory 1957,  Unrated)
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Uomini contro (Many Wars Ago) 1970,  Unrated)
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Thank You For Smoking 2005,  R)
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Super Size Me 2003,  PG-13)
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An Inconvenient Truth 2006,  PG)
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The 11th Hour 2007,  PG)
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Life After People 2008,  Unrated)
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Le Monde Selon Monsanto (The World According to Monsanto) 2008,  Unrated)
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GasLand 2010,  Unrated)
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Blue Gold: World Water Wars 2008,  Unrated)
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006,  R)
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Let's Make Money 2008,  Unrated)
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Sicko 2007,  PG-13)
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The Blues Brothers 1980,  R)
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They Live 1988,  R)
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Dawn of the Dead 1978,  R)
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National Lampoon's Animal House 1978,  R)
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America: Freedom To Fascism 2006,  Unrated)
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This Divided State 2005,  Unrated)
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Liberty Bound 2004,  Unrated)
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Orwell Rolls in His Grave 2004,  Unrated)
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Fahrenheit 9/11 2004,  R)
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Bowling for Columbine 2002,  R)
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Capitalism: A Love Story 2009,  R)
Capitalism: A Love Story
Today, capitalism is not only a danger, is also emergency: although it has lost participation and political-cultural consciousness a few decades ago,the situation is highly dramatic and critical.
This economic system considering only the profit, has reduced the majority of people worldwide in slavery (under the fire of corporations): crushed by wars, genocides and dictatorships funded from the western hegemonic democratic imperialism that looking at globalization, also supports the public debt; and it even reached wildly the untouchable America, with a terrible crisis, which now looks with fear toward the east.

The contemporary situation of poverty sees 1 billion and 200 million people, 20% of the global population will ensure 1'84% of global GDP.
By contrast, the South, home to the other 4 billion and 600 million people participate in the global GDP for a share of 16%.
The result is that every inhabitant of the North has a richness that is almost 21 times higher than that of every inhabitant of the South (while an American consumes as 2 European, 6 Chinese, 22 Indians and 70 Kenyans)
but the problem it's treated by the media as something distant, even if it will look very early at the gates of the rich countries, troubling their appearance of status quo, with environmental disasters, over-population, migration flows and religious clashes.

Now, Michael Moore has certainly provided an opportunity for innovation in the panorama of cinema verite, because his ability to manipulate, since the beginning of his work, a mass of materials, combined till making the cinematic equivalent of the U.S. melting pot.
Nevertheless many people, not just in America, criticizes and hate him (in the artistic field and regardless of politics as well) some have even built websites against and made films, and it is not difficult to see why: his way of dealing with delicate and controversial issues is often biased and subjective, tending to impose his own vision, forcing sources.

So far his most successful works are also the most acclaimed: Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9 / 11, along with Roger & Me; and it's not far from the truth considering that he tried to replicate the abracadabra without getting into all the others, especially in the last two films (although successful in this one, when up the style of Roger & Me to follow the eviction of a family, sent away from home while having to clean up for the same bank criminals).
If even increased political commitment, he lacks the depth and seriousness to address certain arguments such as health and economy in an honest manner; and deespite the choice of topical issues, it is as if the director has lost his edge, that unfolds in Capialism out only occasionally.

In spite of other famous films on the subject, which Zeitgeist is the most important and credible (also because it was released free on the website of Peter Joseph), the criticism of mr. Moore is too mainstream to have real value, not only because it does not identify the actual causes, which he succeded in the two most famous films; but also because it agrees with Catholicism and institutions, involving the audience (as mass) to the Obama Yes We Can - Hope strategy.
It attempts to attract the attention with the usual subversive charge but lost in self exaltation, as in the final or in the case of the constitution, even with good ideas as to dub The last temptation of Christ, or comparison with the ancient Rome, but ignoring basic issues such as the origins of the debt, or eugenics, that if save him from imputations of conspiring, also relegate the film not so much to the socialist field but to a sectoral and corporate one.

Though, given the sensitivity of the issue, the audience, unaware and eager to acquire informations (where the only listed economy "experts" are the actor Wallace Shawn and a student out of the New York Stock Exchange), does not need banana skin like Moore's, lost as in wanting to explain important topics like the internal crisis (which was more valuable at the times of the video Rage Against The Machine - Sleep Now in the Fire, also shot in Wall Street), so light-minded and spectacular, as immature.
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The Big One 1997,  PG-13)
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Loose Change: Final Cut 2007,  Unrated)
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon 2006,  PG-13)
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The People Vs. Larry Flynt 1996,  R)
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Steal This Movie 2000,  R)
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Too Hot Not to Handle 2006,  Unrated)
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Hearts and Minds 1974,  R)
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Radio Bikini 1987,  Unrated)
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Embedded Live 2005,  Unrated)
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4:20 Hour Stand-Up 2009,  Unrated)
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A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash 2007,  Unrated)
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Garbage Warrior 2007,  Unrated)
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Food, Inc. 2008,  PG)
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The Price of Sugar 2007,  Unrated)
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Food Matters 2008,  Unrated)
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Religulous 2008,  R)
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Milk 2008,  R)
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The Times of Harvey Milk 1983,  Unrated)
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Root of All Evil? 2006,  Unrated)
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Before Stonewall 1984,  Unrated)
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The God Who Wasn't There 2005,  Unrated)
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The Future of Food 2004,  Unrated)
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Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn 2010,  Unrated)
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In Prison My Whole Life 2008,  Unrated)
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The Chomsky Sessions: Noam Chomsky on the World 2008,  Unrated)
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Rush to War 2007,  Unrated)
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Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without A Pause 2005,  Unrated)
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Noam Chomsky - Imperial Grand Strategy 2005,  Unrated)
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Peace DVD 2005,  Unrated)
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Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority 2006,  Unrated)
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Control Room 2003,  Unrated)
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Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism 2004,  Unrated)
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Rush to War 2004,  Unrated)
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Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire 2004,  PG)
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Noam Chomsky - Rebel Without a Pause 2003,  Unrated)
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The Peace! 2004,  Unrated)
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Beyond the Frame: Alternative Perspectives on the War on Terrorism 2004,  Unrated)
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Noam Chomsky: Distorted Morality - America's War on Terror? 2003,  Unrated)
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Noam Chomsky - Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror? 2002,  Unrated)
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Power and Terror - Noam Chomsky in Our Times 2002,  Unrated)
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Brothers and Others 2002,  Unrated)
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On Power, Dissent, and Racism: A Discussion with Noam Chomsky ,  Unrated)
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Obscene 2007,  Unrated)
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Why We Fight 2006,  PG-13)
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Gore Vidal - American Presidency 1999,  Unrated)
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No End in Sight 2007,  Unrated)
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The People Speak 2009,  Unrated)
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Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the USA 2005,  Unrated)
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Louise Michel 2009,  Unrated)
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Serial Mom 1994,  R)
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House Arrest 1996,  PG)
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Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup 2009,  Unrated)
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Manufactured Landscapes 2006,  Unrated)
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The Bridge 2006,  R)
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The Filth and the Fury 2000,  R)
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Ghosts of Cité Soleil 2006,  Unrated)
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Flow: For Love of Water 2007,  Unrated)
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The Yes Men 2003,  R)
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The Boys of Baraka 2005,  R)
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Jesus Camp 2006,  PG-13)
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Trembling Before G-d 2001,  Unrated)
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Life And Debt 2001,  Unrated)
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In Debt We Trust 2006,  Unrated)
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Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy 1994,  Unrated)
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Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq 2000,  Unrated)
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Stealing a Nation 2005,  Unrated)
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Palestine is Still the Issue 2002,  Unrated)
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The Oil Factor 2004,  Unrated)
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The Anarchism in America 1982,  Unrated)
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When the Levees Broke 2006,  Unrated)
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Voices of Iraq 2004,  Unrated)
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Why Wal-Mart Works: And Why That Drives Some People C-r-a-z-y 2005,  Unrated)
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Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town 2001,  PG)
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Finding Our Voices: Stories of American Dissent 2008,  Unrated)
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Voices of Dissent ,  Unrated)
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Indoctrinate-U 2007,  Unrated)
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The Great Global Warming Swindle 2007,  PG)
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Inside Job 2010,  PG-13)
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Restrepo 2010,  R)
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Deliver Us From Evil 2006,  Unrated)
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Capturing the Friedmans 2002,  R)
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So Goes the Nation 2006,  Unrated)
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The Party's Over (Last Party 2000) 2001,  Unrated)
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The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream 2004,  PG-13)
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Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land 2004,  Unrated)
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For the Bible Tells Me So 2007,  Unrated)
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The Great Dictator 1940,  G)
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Modern Times 1936,  G)
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Syriana 2005,  R)
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Good Night, And Good Luck 2005,  PG)
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The Big Chill 1983,  R)
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Ora o mai più (Now Or Never) 2003,  Unrated)
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Vanishing Point 1971,  R)
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Mio Fratello è Figlio Unico (My Brother Is an Only Child) 2007,  R)
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Welcome 2009,  Unrated)
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Easy Rider 1969,  R)
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War Made Easy 2007,  Unrated)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998,  R)
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Chinatown 1974,  R)
Chinatown
I think Chinatown is a change of style in the filmography of the european director Roman Polanski, who has had to adapt to a Hollywood aesthetic.

In this film he works less as auteur and more at the service of a philological reconstruction of film noir, with no reguard , in my opinion, to a true representation of the characters depth, preferring coolness and an ironic look.

The main problem remains the length of the movie, that exceedes without making you understand what they are really talking about, going from paraphrasys of the film Italian political drama films, to to the epic films of American classic, but failing in both directions.
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El Ángel Exterminador (The Exterminating Angel) 1962,  Unrated)
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After Hours 1985,  R)
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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward 2011,  Unrated)
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Biutiful 2010,  R)
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983,  R)
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Monty Python's Life of Brian 1979,  R)
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La Corta notte delle bambole di vetro (Short Night of the Glass Dolls) 1971,  Unrated)
La Corta notte delle bambole di vetro (Short Night of the Glass Dolls)
not properly a horror nor a simple giallo, anyway a nice italian b-movie from the 70s
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The Big Lebowski 1998,  R)
The Big Lebowski
the second half does'nt match the first part, but as a whole it's a really funny puzzle
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Serpico 1973,  R)
Serpico
This film belongs to a moment in cinema when films were not about happy ending.
Al Pacino outdoes himself in this true story, proving to be perfect in the part of Francis Serpico, a martyr to the cause of foiling the NYC police corruption.
But there is more... the corruption here is at a higher level, it's global, and there is no way out. The good guys can only stand and wait to be shot.

You can say it's not a light film, however it's not common to find a film which has the guts to tell it as it is, but I guess those were the times.
It fits somewhere not far from Dogday afternoon but sometimes it also reminds me a bit the alienation that you feel in Taxi Driver; the difference here is that the topic is too fucking rational. The nightmare is reality, or the reality is a nightmare. As you like.
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La proprietà non è più un furto (Property Is No Longer a Theft) 1973,  Unrated)
La proprietà non è più un furto (Property Is No Longer a Theft)
The most experimental, and ambitious film of the trilogy of power by Elio Petri, it's also the less 'classic'. This La proprietà non è più un furto fails exactly on the aspirations. It is too demanding to itself....
I personally didn't like the choice to let them talk in roman dialect, because it makes it look too amateur.
Besides I see the Ugo Tognazzi test as one of the most hyper charged, and far from real... I know it's because this is the Brecht's verfremdungseffekt kind of film, but it's really too much.
Anyway it's just like any other Petri's film: as innovative as apocalyptic and prophetic.
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Election 1999,  R)
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The Osterman Weekend 1983,  R)

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