Best Progressive Movies Ever

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I will put the Petagon Papers and All the President's Men on the top of my list. What are yours?

[Redbear]

1. The Manchurian Candidate

The original.

[smtpgirl]

4. A vote for your nomination

both Manchurian Candidates merit that distinction

[XemaSab]

2. Sneakers

:D

[mduffy31]

5. Great minds think alike

I just picked that movie up yesterday and that is what I was going to say. Wonderful movie, and it was River's last movie before he died.

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6. What's it about?

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7. Oooh, it has Redford, it has to be good.

[LostInAnomie]

3. Bound For Glory

I thought it was pretty good for a bio-flick.

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8. We can't leave "the Contender" off the list.

[nealmhughes]

9. Battleship Potemkin. Eisenstein was an absolute genius. Even though the Odessa Steps

scene has been endlessly parodied, the actual sequence, the lens blown out of the woman's glasses, the carriage, and no blood, just the soldiers aiming and a whiff of smoke...then the bodies rolling...
The soldiers carrying the dead sailor's body onto the docks with the sign "He died for soup."

[mentalsolstice]

10. Goodnight & Good Luck n/t

[Critters2]

11. Dr. Strangelove. nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Well, if you're gonna do that one

then you gotta do "Fail-Safe."

Same film; just not a comedy.

[ikojo]

12. Reds by Warren Beatty...awesome!

Matewan by John Sayles

Grapes of Wrath starring Henry Fonda...a movie that would probably not get made today.

Norma Rae

Some documentaries...

Fahrenheit 9/11
Inconvenient Truth
Jesus Camp...not a progressive movie but will let you know what fundie America really teaches their kids.

[begin_within]

13. It's a four-way tie between:

Soy Cuba (1964) - http://imdb.com/title/tt0058604/
Salt Of The Earth (1954) - http://imdb.com/title/tt0047443/
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - http://imdb.com/title/tt0032551/
El Norte (1983) - http://imdb.com/title/tt0085482/

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14. Anyone seen a good MLK movie?

[pitohui]

15. i haven't seen as many movies as most people

a well made movie even if you don't agree w. the conclusions, if there are conclusions, the open endedness is kind of what i like about it, "bowling for columbine"

another not yet mentioned is "malcolm x"

if michael mann's movie "ali" is considered progressive, i would put that in there somewhere

[Downtown Hound]

16. Bob Roberts

The Tim Robbins movie that basically foretells the coming of the Republican Revolution, and what it means for America.