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2005-06-23

A social justice movie list

Care of a Mennonite mailing list linked to Christian Peacmaker Teams comes this PDF detailing probably about 20 movies with social justice themes. Everything from 'Pay it Forward' and 'Erin Brokovich' to 'Gandhi' and 'The Corporation', plus a lot more that I'd never heard of. I'd certainly like this library.
On a side note I was interested to see they list 'Inherit the Wind' as one of the social justice related films. Interesting because in my much promised and as-yet undelivered Fundamentalism articles I plan to raise this. The film was openly quite liberally with the facts of the Scopes Monkey Trial as its makers argued they were actually using elements of the trial's story to reflect on the then current McCarthy anti-communist witch-hunts. However the comparison is pretty unfair (the Scopes trial was more about the political posturing of two movements than victimizing the defendant, who volunteered to be charged at the request of the ACLU). However it's interesting that the person who submitted the movie to this list didn't see it as being about McCarthyism at all and seems to have had no idea it wasn't remotely factual.



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