The New Republic's The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time
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"We wanted to do something special for this double July-August issue of The New Republic, but we weren’t sure what; then it hit us that summer is movie season, so why not combine that fact with this magazine’s great passion and come up with a list of history’s best political movies? (TNR, by the way, is no stranger to motion pictures. For decades, the magazine published the work of famed twentieth-century critic Stanley Kauffmann, and we continue to run trenchant film analysis today.)
It was that germ of an idea that led us to reach out to J. Hoberman, one of the leading film critics of the last half-century, to curate this project. Hoberman changed it from “best” to “most significant” and led us in assembling a list of around 130 critics to whom we wrote, asking them to participate. We were pleased that 79 wrote back with their lists." (The New Republic)
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La battaglia di Algeri
1966 — a.k.a. The Battle of Algiers, in 29 top lists Check -
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The Manchurian Candidate
1962, in 15 top lists Check -
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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All the President's Men
1976, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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Triumph des Willens
1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
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Do the Right Thing
1989, in 25 top lists Check -
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Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
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A Face in the Crowd
1957, in 14 top lists Check -
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939, in 16 top lists Check -
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Harlan County U.S.A.
1976, in 11 top lists Check -
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La chinoise
1967 — a.k.a. The Chinese, in 5 top lists Check -
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Il conformista
1970 — a.k.a. The Conformist, in 20 top lists Check -
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Z
1969, in 17 top lists Check -
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Election
1999, in 7 top lists Check -
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La commune (Paris, 1871)
2000 — a.k.a. La Commune (Paris, 1871), in 5 top lists Check -
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La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...
1975 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part I, in 8 top lists Check -
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La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...
1976 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part II, in 6 top lists Check -
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La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...
1979 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part III, in 6 top lists Check -
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Das Leben der Anderen
2006 — a.k.a. The Lives of Others, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Candidate
1972, in 2 top lists Check -
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Nuit et brouillard
1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check -
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Malcolm X
1992, in 7 top lists Check -
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Advise & Consent
1962, in 3 top lists Check -
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Lincoln
2012, in 5 top lists Check -
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Stachka
1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Great Dictator
1940, in 25 top lists Check -
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Memorias del subdesarrollo
1968 — a.k.a. Memories of Underdevelopment, in 11 top lists Check -
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Selma
2014, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Great McGinty
1940, in 4 top lists Check -
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Gabriel Over the White House
1933, in 0 top lists Check -
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Salt of the Earth
1954, in 6 top lists Check -
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La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios...
1968 — a.k.a. The Hour of the Furnaces, in 9 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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JFK
1991, in 13 top lists Check -
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Night of the Living Dead
1968, in 20 top lists Check -
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080...
1975, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Murder of Fred Hampton
1971, in 2 top lists Check -
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Primary
1960, in 6 top lists Check -
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Hearts and Minds
1974, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
1973, in 2 top lists Check -
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Reds
1981, in 9 top lists Check -
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Czlowiek z marmuru
1977 — a.k.a. Man of Marble, in 7 top lists Check -
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Born in Flames
1983, in 5 top lists Check -
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Duck Soup
1933, in 24 top lists Check -
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1930, in 19 top lists Check -
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Medium Cool
1969, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Parallax View
1974, in 10 top lists Check -
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Bulworth
1998, in 2 top lists Check
Last updated on Jun 22, 2023; source