 | Gallipoli
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $5.99 stupidity, incompetence in high places, class consciousness blinding people to reason and thoughtfulness. the pigheadness of power. self sacrifice, love for the man in the battle next to you. heroes and cowards saints and sinners.
go to youtube and search for "Can You Hear Australia's Heroes Marching?"
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 | Michael Collins
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.76 the Easter Uprising is, to put it in ethnocentric American terms, as if the signers of the Declaration of Independence were all hung by the British after the battle of Concord and Bunker Hill. go to youtube and search for "clips from the Easter rising set to grace by the wolfe tones"
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 | Gettysburg / Gods and Generals
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.22 it will always be THE Lost Cause for me.
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 | Once Were Warriors
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $11.53 probably the best known movie about the struggles of native and aboriginal peoples against the cultural destructiveness of modern western technological society.
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 | Rabbit-Proof Fence
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $4.93 like "Once Were Warriors" a story of the English destruction of Australian and New Zealand native peoples. With kids the point is driven home so much more powerfully and with greater sadness.
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 | Whale Rider
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.24 This movie is filled with heroes and lost causes:
young vs old. enthusiasm vs. cynical wisdom
female vs male. issues of gender and power
Maori vs English. native people and powerful colonizers
but most of all it is humanity's separation from our roots in nature. only children can be unself-conscious and part of the natural world.
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 | Braveheart
Buy used from: $2.25 FREEDOM
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 | Gladiator - Extended Edition (Three-Disc Extended Edition)
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $7.07 i couldn't decide either this or Spartacus for all those enslaved over the millenium and died dreaming of nothing more than their freedom.
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 | Frances
Buy used from: $16.00 either this or "one flew over the cuckoo's nest"
to stand in for all those inflicted with mental illness and those effected by them.
We don't understand nor can we really deal with the issue. the whole thing appears as a lost and hopeless cause. the pathos and terror of Frances makes it a must see film.
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 | The Killing Fields
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.82 This movie is for all the losers:
The Cambodian people.
The European Jews,
The Armenians,
endless ethnic groups in the Soviet Union.
American indigenous people from 1492 to the present battles in Brazil
the the Pacific Island people like Easter Island and the Hawaiians.
"for they came to do good, and their children did very well indeed."
i had to choose between this and the Emerald Forest
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 | Hotel Rwanda
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $0.89 there are several excellent films about the Hutu genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
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 | Z
Buy used from: $18.45 there are a number of films in this same genre.
this is the first i saw, many years ago.
mostly of the others are about South America and in particular Argentina and the disappeared in that dirty little war.
imagining Argentina
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 | The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $32.00 this is the first real political movie i can remember watching and being deeply moved by.
another anti-colonialism movie.
watch and then read Albert Camus.
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 | Breaker Morant (Masterworks Edition)
Buy used from: $9.31 what a sad and conflicting movie.
they are certainly guilty of the crimes. but they were playing by the rules as they had been given beforehand, it is the rules that changed, not the men.
yet they are certainly heroes.
why? they are murderers.
why should we excuse these actions just because they are fighting a cruel and unjust war?
for more on the Boer War see:
Thomas Packenham, The Boer War
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