Films to Watch
THE LIBRARIANS, a 2025 film, chronicles the Christian Nationalist book banning and threats against librarians, causing many to flee Republican states for their lives.
During the 1692–93 Salem witch trials, over 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging. One man died under torture, and five people died in the disease-ridden jails without trial. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH about one of the accused whose two sisters were executed, tells the story of how Sarah Cloyce cleared her own and her sisters names after petitioning the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
In 2024, the film BAD FAITH tracked the money behind the takeover of the U.S. Government by white supremacist Christian Nationalists. In the 2023 documentary film MAFIAS and BANKS, the money is followed to tell the story of how transnational organized crime has captured the global banking industry.
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THE SIXTH is a documentary of the January 6, 2021, insurrection by Trump’s Proud Boys, told through the eyes of U.S. Capitol Police who fought them.
GHOST IN THE MACHINE excavates the buried history of artificial intelligence, arguing that its origins lie not in neutral machines but in human systems of power. Director Valerie Veatch traces how early definitions of intelligence were shaped by scientific racism, eugenics, and Eurocentric assumptions, ideologies that would later inform the technological culture of Silicon Valley.
ORWELL, one of the most important films in years.
THE RISE OF GERMANY’S NEW RIGHT from PBS FRONTLINE.
