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Powerful Movies to Watch that Resonate with Current Events

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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...
 
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A story of resilience. Pianist Władysław Szpilman and his horrifying experience of the Holocaust.
The Pianist
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
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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
 
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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.
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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