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The Panama Deception is worth the watch. It doesn't really have an open leftist angle to it though per se, just a critical examination of the 1989 US invasion of Panama.
Besides just a shameless plug for my website that reviews quite a few documentariesI also suggest checking out the following:
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Also this one is a good one about a mine war in the 80s http://appalshop.org/film/minewar/stream.html and features the current President of the AFL-CIO
Oh crap, how could I forget Harlan County USA. Not really about explicitly revolutionary politics but a pretty amazing doc about a 1970s miner's strike that should be of interest to leftists.
It's been a while since I saw it last, but it made a huge impression on me when I first saw it as a new-ish radical. It shows how quickly things can escalate, problems with union beurocracy (I think this was a wildcat or there was some kind of friction or betrayal by the union leadership, but I can't remember exactly), and is just an amazing non-fiction look at a bitter labor battle as it progresses. It's usually the type of thing you have to read in fiction or in people's accounts in retrospect.
"de stad was van ons" (the city was ours), a good (though lacking in some parts) history of the 80's squat movement in Amsterdam:
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The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
This is a documentary on the Situationist International.
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Bobby Seale is currently raising funds to make a doc about the history of the Black Panther Party so watch out for it in the future
R.I.P Juan Almeida Bosque
"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely
the oppressive situations which we seek to escape,
but that piece of the oppressor which is
planted deep within each of us." Audre Lorde
Secret City is a film about the City of London and their immense power over economic and political policies in the UK and beyond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HJGLqMAQbk
Ken Loach's Which Side Are You On? is film about the miners' strike in britain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUTCZCbU5Mo
The House I Live In is an exploration of the criminal justice system in the US: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWKdPCkfZ9U
Marx Reloaded in another doc worth the watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbep804U5tw
Modern democracy is nothing but the freedom to preach whatever is to the advantage of the bourgeoisie - Lenin
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SYNOPSIS: I Lost My Job is a short documentary film which sets out to explore the phenomenon which is affecting and due to affect many people's lives - namely, technological unemployment. The documentary also examines what we can do about it as a society through the analysis of a transitional direction.
Particular questions need to be raised about this subject. What are the social consequences of ongoing technological unemployment within our current economic system? How do we handle such a situation when this process is inevitable with the ongoing emergence of machine automation and new technologies taking over repetitive jobs?
Recently saw "will the real terrorist please stand up". It's a documentary about Exile/US aggression against Cuba. Not sure if it's leftist per se but it was interesting nonetheless.
Lucio
I cants post links but the full vid is on youtube
These are good movies that explain the theory of "Leading Light Communism" and the LLCO to people:
[youtube=qabKZlXCXeU]Walk This Road With Us[/youtube]
and
[youtube=Ld3b8vRb4co]LLCO- Our Day is Coming[/youtube]
Wish more organizations made movies like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88f6QF3R_vo
This is good simple answer to the capitalism.
I would strongly recommend Koppels 1990 documentary American Dream about the '85 P-9 strike debacle.
I can't believe the international went as far as sandblasting the mural off the side of the local's wall. Fuckers.
That brings back '90s memories.
A great oral history -- whatever your opinion of the CPUSA. Shows that people joined because the Communists were the ones that were out there on the line, when it counted.
Available here in the States on Netflix.
I would strongly recommend The Take which is about the factory takeovers during the financial crisis in Argentina. Directed by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein. Incredible stuff.
Available here in the States on Netflix. (DVD)
