Fascism on Film Podcast
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A podcast exploring fascism in cinema: How films depict fascist regimes, their societal impact, and role in resistance. Listen and Subscribe: fascismonfilm.com
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The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)

In the film, the demand for equality is framed as a threat. Griffith depicts Black citizens calling for rights and land as chaos and disorder, turning multiracial democracy into the villain.

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This episode of the Fascism on Film podcast focuses on the first movie we recommend as a primer on fascism: The Mortal Storm

Released in 1940, the film is an effective drama and an antifascist narrative that effectively highlights fascism's central tenets and their impact. #filmsky #moviesky
A Storm Approaches: ‘The Mortal Storm’ | Fascism on Film
In this episode, we talk about The Mortal Storm (1940), Frank Borzage’s quietly devastating portrait of a German family caught in the first months of Nazi rule. ...
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Tons of material in propagandistic Hollywood movies. We have a whole list of them we'll be discussing in a later season of the podcast.
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)

No matter where you are, the usual suspects list always seems to start with the same people.

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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933)

“This film was made as an allegory to show Hitler’s processes of terrorism. Slogans and doctrines of the Third Reich have been put into the mouths of criminals in the film.” Fritz Lang

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Hans Westmar (Franz Wenzler, 1933)

This Nazi propaganda drama casts leftists as the villains. In this scene, workers rally against fascist terror, but the film frames antifascism itself as a street-level threat to order and national unity.

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None Shall Escape (André de Toth, 1944)

A Nazi officer, convicted of war crimes, issues an ominous warning.

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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak, 1939)

After years abroad, a German-American woman describes her unsettling return to Germany.

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Hitler’s Children (Edward Dmytryk, 1943)

An American schoolgirl discovers a trick to fighting Nazis.

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Is this show any good? I haven’t seen it because I usually don’t like reality shows.
So often we glorify lone heroes who swoop in to save the day, but rarely tell stories of communities saving themselves. Collective action is too real, too threatening, maybe even too boring, to fit our favorite feel-good story about powerful and charismatic individuals.
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)

Conrad Veidt as Major Strasser — the Nazi who cancels laughter to hide his fear of it.

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Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)

Fellini’s satirical staging of a Blackshirt rally shows townsfolk parading through the streets, chanting Fascist slogans.

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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)

In his darkest moment, Rick (Humphrey Bogart) envisions an America sleeping while the threats of fascism and heartbreak loom.

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The Last Metro (François Truffaut, 1980)

Sometimes seeing the hatcheck at a restaurant is enough to make you think about dining elsewhere.

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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

The face of a ring opens to reveal a secret message, the Cross of Lorraine — a symbol of French resistance.

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The Last Metro (François Truffaut, 1980)

After 853 days in a cellar during the Nazi occupation of France, a Jewish man steps into the light. Spray-painted over German propaganda, a “V” for Victory combined with the Cross of Lorraine, the emblem of French resistance and liberation.

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Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935)

Throughout the film, Riefenstahl and her cameramen repeatedly return to this infinity mirror composition, which gives the impression of endless Nazis arrayed across time and space.

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The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)

Imagine a president coming right out and endorsing a group of masked vigilantes bent on instilling fear and enacting violence against people for the color of their skin.

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Ethno-nationalism is rarely a good thing, no matter where it's happening.
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)

The film doesn't leave unanswered questions about the genocidal nature of the Federation. It answers them loudly.
To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)

A Nazi offers a review of an actor's performance. The joke was controversial at the time, as the audience supplies the verb.

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