movies for the resistance

MaryAnn’s quick take: A heist drama, incendiary and intense, with planetary stakes. The young people of How to Blow Up a Pipeline are desperate, with nothing to lose, and everyone older than them made them this way. Nihilism is their only optimism. Read the review…

Movies that reflect the revolutionary spirit we will need to transform our broken world.

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2021 films

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Judas and the Black Messiah
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from 2020

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The Glorias
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Misbehaviour
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Sorry We Missed You
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from 2019

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Woman at War
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The Public

from 2018

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ACORN and the Firestorm
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BlackKklansman
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Blindspotting
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Generation Wealth
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The Hate U Give
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Monsters and Men
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Postcards from the 48%
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RBG
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Sorry to Bother You
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A Wrinkle in Time

  
recent years
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Human Flow
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I Am Not Your Negro
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classics
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Soylent Green
All the President’s Men
Children of Men [my 2007 review]
The China Syndrome
The Corporation [my 2005 review]
Dave
A Day Without a Mexican
Do the Right Thing
Fahrenheit 451
Gaslight
Good Night, and Good Luck. [my 2005 review]
The Great Dictator
How to Survive a Plague [my 2013 review]
Idiocracy [my 2007 review]
Lord of War [my 2005 review]
Network
1984
Norma Rae
Passport to Pimlico
Robocop (1987)
Roger and Me
Searching for Debra Winger
The Siege [my 1998 review]
Silkwood
They Live
The Truman Show [my 1998 review]
V for Vendetta [my 2006 review]
Wag the Dog [my 1998 review]

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my reaction under consideration
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my reaction under gag order for now
not yet seen by me OR awaiting rewatch and reconsideration as a movie for the resistance