Links & Things The New Republic‘s list of 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time J. Hoberman’s essay on the poll The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) Red Dawn (John Milius, 1984) Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935) La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000) The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1966) No (Pablo Larrain, 2012) Nightcleaners (Berwick Street Film Collective, 1975) All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976) Newsreel The Film and Photo League The Black Audio Film Collective Be Seeing You (A Bientot J’espere) (Chris Marker, 1967) The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak (Les Insoumuses, 1975) The Monopoly of Violence (David Dufresne, 2020) Afrique sur Seine (Mamadou Sarr & Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1955) My Survival as an Aboriginal (Essie Coffey, 1979) Handsworth Songs (Black Audio Film Collective, 1986) Hour of the Furnaces (Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas, 1968) Toward a Third Cinema,” Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas, 1970 Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940) The Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1948) The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985) Rocky III (Sylvestor Stallone, 1982) Predator (John McTiernan, 1987) Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror, 1972) Attica (Cinda Firestone, 1974) Selma (Ava DuVernay, 2014) Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard, 1972) Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) Something Like a War (Deepa Dhanraj, 1991) “Whose History,” Lis Rhodes, 1978 Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968) The Battle of Chile (Patricio Guzmán, 1975-79) Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950) Tele-Machine (Takis, 1960) and its removal from the MoMA’s “The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age” All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras, 2022)
