Edit Needed:"A Day Without A Mexican" rather than "A Day Without Mexicans".
This is great stuff, thanks for posting it. I'm embarrassed to say that the only one of the above I have seen is "Tucker", which is one of my all-time favourites. I ended up buying "V for Vendetta" on your recommendation, and it's one of those rare movies I can watch again and again without getting sick of it. I've also meant to thank you for posting that video about how to talk to cops - I had an eerily similar incident happen a few days after I saw it and it saved my ass big time.
Some ones that I've liked
-"Bloody Sunday" shows that nothing good comes from crushing a people down, that violence breeds violence.
-"The Outlaw Josey Wales" with libertarian Clint Eastwood explores the role of the Union government in sponsoring terrorism. The famous scene with Ten Bears is on Youtube here. I don't like westerns very much, yet this is one of my favourie films of all time. The only other western I like is
-"The Man who Shot Liberty Valance" with John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Jimmy Stewart is a movie about the relationship between violence and the law.
-"Stander", about South African police captain turned bank robber Andre Stander. During an anti-apartheid protest the police begin shooting the non-violent demonstrators. The police were given lethal ammunition for their shotguns instead of rubber baton rounds because too many cops had been replacing them with D batteries. That is a government "solution". He ends up killing a protester who surprised him, and the guilt from his actions compounded with the fact that he was let off scot-free kickstarted a craving to be punished. He robbed 20 banks, was caught, broke out and robbed 26 more. Amazing story, I can't believe that it's true.
Liam: I started to try to winnow this down to one or two must sees and then realized I can't. Rabbit-Proof Fences, I've seen several times. Evelyn is on my shelf and I'll watch it again in the next day or two. East/West is fantastic. Harrison Bergeron is hard to find -- out of print, but great. I loved Tailor of Panama. Marva Collins Story was a made for TV movie that I have on video and still enjoy watching. So trying to narrow it down wasn't possible. And there are dozens more.
Liam: By the way some of the Tucker story in the film is exaggerated. So I see it as a film not a true represtation of the actual events. I was there when it was filmed and saw all the actual Tucker cars parked for the closing scene. I beleive the film tracked down all of them but one. And one was on display at the car dealership I walked past daily for quite a long time. I went to the premier of it. Coppola was there and so was Linda Ronstadt who lived nearby at the time. She was on the arm of George Luckas at the time.
The Stander film is also not all factual. His family tried to justify what he did by exaggerating things. There is no evidence he actually shot anyone there and a friend from his gang said it didn't happen. Even "true" stories have to be taken with a grain of salt as Hollywood wants drama not accuracy. Off hand I can't think of an accurate Hollywood film based on true events. They all take license.
Though Judgment in Berlin (which I also highly recommend) seems to be fairly accurate.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, right?
Wow, that must have been a sight to see. I had the privilege of seeing one up close at the Smithsonian in DC, but that can't compare to seeing a bunch of them in action. Gorgeous cars.
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