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Powerful Movies to Watch that Resonate with Current Events
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items I think it would be hard to find someone unaffected by the current events. There is so much injustice and everyone is hurting. Despite the dark times, I am so proud to see how many people are standing up. To deepen our understanding of historical eve...
A story of resilience. Pianist Władysław Szpilman and his horrifying experience of the Holocaust.
The Pianist
A story with a scene so uncomfortable to watch, they almost cut it out. The brutality of what black Americans had to face, even when they were “free”. It is important for every American to watch this. To see everything, without looking away.
12 Years a Slave
Free to watch on pluto tv, please note it is english dubbed. This is a beautifully sad movie about an Italian Jewish father that protects his son from the realities of the concentration camp.
Life is Beautiful
Free to play on pluto tv. While this work is fiction, I still think it applies to this list. We are placed into the shoes of Truman Burbank, who realizes that the world is not as it seems. What is the next step - to live as we are told or to find our...
The Truman Show
Systematic ab*** of children in a school that was meant to protect them. This film reminds us that we need to always search for answers against injustice and to speak up for those who are powerless.
Silenced
Protests, free speech, judiciary systemic injustice, and police brutality are all highlighted in this dramatized version of the federal trials of anti-war activists. A story of what power can do in the wrong hands.
The Trial of the Chicago 7
One of the best movies to have ever been created. A story of courage and how just one person can be the light in the abyss of darkness.
Schindler's List
The direct effects of war on children. Agu, a young boy, becomes a child soldier during a brutal civil war. Adapted from novel Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala.
Beasts of No Nation
Grit, passion, and justice. A single mother and legal assistant uncovers a water contamination scandal. A whistleblower turned investigator who dedicated everything into helping 600 plaintiffs get justice. Unfortunately some passed away while waiting...
Erin Brockovich
Political thriller in which a cutthroat lobbyist decides to make a career pivot to fight against arms manufacturers trying to fight against gun control bills. Her determination to win puts a target on her.
Miss Sloane
A dark comedy of two astronomers that work tirelessly to warn the world about an obvious, gigantic problem that everyone seems to be ignoring.
Don't Look Up
Whistleblower Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco executive who exposed industry secrets, and Lowell Bergman, a 60 Minutes producer, who battled to air the story.
The Insider
The Washington Post and the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Strangely, hard to find to watch this movie.
The Post
Not a movie, but a series of how democracy has fallen to a radical religious group after a coupe. A long and gritty story of a brave woman fighting to regain her autonomy and crash against totalitarian control
The Handmaid's Tale
An assassination investigation of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison opens up an extensive and complicated conspiracy that the government set it up.
JFK