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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 1d

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 1d

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 2d

New Episode of the Fascism on Film Podcast!

Jean Renoir’s This Land Is Mine (1943) turns a Hollywood wartime drama into a story about fear, conscience, and the quiet choice to resist.

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Finding the Courage: ‘This Land Is Mine’ | Fascism on Film

Jean Renoir’s This Land Is Mine (1943) turns a Hollywood wartime drama into a story about fear, conscience, and the quiet choice to resist. Made after Renoir fled Vichy France, the film follows Albert...

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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 5d

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 12d

None Shall Escape (André de Toth, 1944)

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

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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 12d

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 15d

Hitler’s Children (Edward Dmytryk, 1943)

An American schoolgirl discovers a trick to fighting Nazis.

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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 17d

Is this show any good? I haven’t seen it because I usually don’t like reality shows.

Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 17d

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.

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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 17d

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)

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

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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 18d

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 19d

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 19d

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 21d

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 26d

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 26d

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 29d

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · 29d

Ethno-nationalism is rarely a good thing, no matter where it's happening.

Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · Sep 9

Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)

The film doesn't leave unanswered questions about the genocidal nature of the Federation. It answers them loudly.

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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · Sep 9

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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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · Sep 9

True, some of us knew what was up — but when I saw it on opening day, the audience actually cheered, clapped, and got caught up in the visceral experience of the action.

Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · Sep 8

New Episode of Fascism on Film Podcast

Starship Troopers is known as a satire of radicalized fascism.

So why do we still cheer?

The violence, the uniforms, the sacrifice, the glory.
It’s a fascist seduction, and it works — exposing our complicity in genocide.

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In Space Everyone Knows You’re a Fascist: ‘Starship Troopers’ | Fascism on Film

In the season one finale of Fascism on Film, we turn our attention to Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers (1997), a film that functions both as a raucous sci-fi action movie and a biting satire of fasc...

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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak, 1939)

An FBI agent (Edward G. Robinson) interrogates the leader of the German-American Bund about his true allegiance.

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Fascism on Film Podcast @fascismonfilm.bsky.social · Sep 5

Black Legion (Archie Mayo, 1937)

Frank (Humphrey Bogart) explains the reason why his group of masked and hooded vigilantes is justified in beating immigrants, running people out of town, and burning down houses. They're "real Americans"

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