ALL TIME BEST: Social justice movies

A few more movies... (0.00 / 0)

Philadelphia, Roger and Me, Erin Brokovich.  Great post!  I'd love to see other ideas!

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by: Laura Wintroub @ Tue Oct 19, 2010 at 20:46:41 PM UTC

two off the top of my head (0.00 / 0)

Matewan! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

it does have race relations as a major part of it, but it's also about workers' rights! and religion. i can honestly say i was inspired when the credits rolled.  "Matewan (1987) is an American drama film written and directed by John Sayles, illustrating the events of a coal mine-workers' strike and attempt to unionize in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia."  

hmm...

for a more messed-up one, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Caché (2007) deals with being confronted by the legacy of class privilege in the context of a well-off white French liberal intellectual and the Algerian who was his parents' servant. not exactly inspiring or wholesome, more provocative.  

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by: gps @ Wed Oct 20, 2010 at 15:00:38 PM UTC

so many goog SJ movies! (0.00 / 0)

All depends on how we define the categor(ies), some of mine:

Amistad, Amazing Grace

The Accused, Boys Don't Cry

Norma Rae

 

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by: Jeremy Burton @ Wed Oct 20, 2010 at 23:27:33 PM UTC

Social justice (0.00 / 1)

I guess we both have the same interest in watching movies relating to social justice. Social justice perhaps had been a critical issues in all countries, hence it is a serious thing for all of us. The movies that you listed above are just simply truthful and i may say it may possibly happen in the real world. Race discrimination can be related to this issue that have been an all time hotly debated topic, see, all this were happening and that I think those movies relating to them has something to teach or deliver certain moral lessons. Everybody should be open with this current issues and this movies are certainly is a good way to connect to others that are not so particular with it.

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by: MylesM @ Thu Oct 21, 2010 at 08:42:03 AM UTC

Labor movies, what about Jewish social justice movies, too? (0.00 / 0)

I can't help but think in categories about movies and books.  I'll go with labor movies, since I'm into those.

My favorites are:

Bread and Roses -janitor's union struggle in LA and a romance, made in 2000, very watchable

Salt of the Earth - about a miner's strike, creators of this movie were blacklisted during anti-communist, Hollywood witch hunts and the movie was banned, black and white

Norma Rae - labor, the south, and women building powe, totally watchable, too

How about Jewish social justice movies, like Trembling Before G-d.  Are there others?

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by: Rachel Feldman @ Mon Oct 25, 2010 at 20:47:06 PM UTC

Ten Picks for Starters (0.00 / 0)

A selection from all over the map! 

The Yes Men
Supersize Me!
Fried Green Tomatoes
All the President's Men
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Dancer in the Dark
Roger and Me
Milk
An Inconvenient Truth
The Battle of Algiers

 

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by: Erica Brody @ Tue Oct 26, 2010 at 14:24:52 PM UTC

Here are some of my favorites (0.00 / 0)

 

1. Sarafina
   
2. American history X
3. A soldiers story
4. A Raisin in the Sun
5. Do the Right Thing
6. Shawshank Redemption
7. Rosewood
   

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by: Tamiko @ Tue Oct 26, 2010 at 18:43:29 PM UTC

ipad nokia (0.00 / 0)

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by: guoxing @ Thu Oct 20, 2011 at 10:26:26 AM UTC

good (0.00 / 0)

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by: JohnMartinez @ Mon Apr 30, 2012 at 11:04:40 AM UTC