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Top 25 Left-Wing Films: #8 – 'Norma Rae' (1979)

When they spoke, they spoke in one voice, and they were heard. They were black, they were white, they were Irish, they were Polish, they were Catholic, they were Jews, they were one. That’s what a union is: one… Why

Top 25 Left-Wing Films: #9 – 'Silkwood' (1983)

You think I contaminated myself, you think I did that? Why it’s a left-wing film For my money, nothing exposes the left for the anti-capitalist, anti-progress socialists they really are more than their opposition to nuclear power. Here’s an energy

Top 25 Left-Wing Films: #11 – 'The Insider' (1999)

The unlimited checkbook. That’s how Big Tobacco wins every time on everything, they spend you to death. Six hundred million a year in outside legal – Chadbourne-Park, uh, Ken Starr’s firm, Kirkland & Ellis? Listen: GM and Ford, they get

Top 25 Left-Wing Films: #12 – 'American Beauty' (1999)

It’s okay, I wouldn’t remember me either. Why it’s a left-wing film Sam Mendes’ “American Beauty” opens high above a beautiful American suburb as though the idea is to watch the first-time director pick from at random any perfect-looking American

TCM's Documentary On Hollywood History Wildly Misses the Mark

Over the past few weeks I’ve been catching up with the Turner Classic Movies’ original documentary “Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood,” which aired in seven one-hour installments and reportedly took two-and-a-half-years to produce. Which is a shame,

Top 25 Left-Wing Films: #16 – 'Missing' (1982)

Ed Horman filed suit charging eleven government officials, including Henry A. Kissinger, with complicity and negligence in the death of his son. The body was not returned home until seven months later, making an accurate autopsy impossible. After years of

Top 25 Left-Wing Films: #19 – 'Soylent Green' (1973)

Ah, people were always lousy… But there was a world, once. Why it’s a left-wing film The opening montage says it all. Various photographs reveal when the world’s downfall began, with the early days of American industrialization, and then take

Top 25 Left-Wing Films: #20 – 'Fahrenheit 9/11' (2004)

While Bush was busy taking care of his base and professing his love for our troops, he proposed cutting combat soldiers’ pay by 33% and assistance to their families by 60%. Why it’s a left-wing film Writer/director Michael Moore’s paranoid