List of films about socialism
This is a list of films in which the theme of socialism features prominently in the movie.
| Film | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Capitalism: A Love Story | 2009 | A documentary by American filmmaker Michael Moore exploring and criticizing capitalism in America. |
| Che | 2008 | A two part biopic about the socialist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. |
| Sicko | 2007 | A documentary by American filmmaker Michael Moore investigating health care in the United States and how it compares with socialized public health services. |
| Lights in the Dusk | 2006 | It has been argued that this film deals with the ways in which "[c]apitalism has painted the town red, just a different shade of red from its socialist connotations" as well as that "rock is so important to the director that a number of his males, including Koistinen, favor a 50s, greasy, sweptback hair style, to go along with their love of rock 'n' roll (definitely a reminder of how rock was the way to rebel in socialist countries)."[1] |
| The Wind That Shakes The Barley | 2006 | A film set during the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War. The film shows the divergences in the Irish republican movement during the revolutionary period and the civil war. |
| The Killing Fields | 1984 | A film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. |
| Reds | 1981 | Film about the life and career of John Reed, particularly his time in Petrograd which formed the basis of his book, Ten Days That Shook the World.[2] |
| Winstanley | 1975 | A film about Gerrard Winstanley who along with the group known as the Diggers carried out one of the world's first socialist living experiments. The film reflects class antagonism between peasants and lords in a feudal economy. |
| The Working Class Goes to Heaven | 1971 | A satirical, political drama by Italian filmmaker Elio Petri.[3] |
| La Chinoise | 1967 | A film by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard about a group of young Maoist activists in Paris. |
| Modern Times | 1936 | The film references the struggle of the working classes during the Great Depression; long working hours, little job security and meager salary, while the upper classes remain wealthy and bide their time. A tale of struggle of a working couple. |
| October: Ten Days That Shook the World | 1928 | A Soviet Union film by Sergei Eisenstein which presents a dramatic retelling of the Russian revolution in 1917 which marked the beginnings of the Soviet Union. |
| Strike | 1925 | A Soviet Union film by Sergei Eisenstein. |
| Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | A film by Sergei Eisenstein covering one of the formative events of the Russian revolution, the mutiny of a ship's crew against their officers.[4] |
References
[edit]- ^ Nafus, Chale, Director of Programming, Austin Film Society. "Lights in the Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot): Written, Produced, Directed, and Edited by Aki Kaurismäki". Austin Film Society. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ McCrum, Robert (2016-12-19). "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 47 – Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed (1919)". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ^ Film Review, http://linchpin.ca/Blogs/Film-Review-Working-Class-Go-Heaven Archived 2013-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Richard Taylor (12 January 2001). Battleship Potemkin: The Film Companion. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0-85771-073-4.