New Episode of Fascism on Film!
Rome, 1938. While the city parades for Hitler and Mussolini, and fascism is exposed through domestic devotion, acoustic hypnosis, and the distance between public spectacle and private reality.
#filmsky #moviesky #specialday
New Episode of Fascism on Film
Aster’s Eddington shows what happens when every belief system collapses at once—religion, politics, community, even reality itself. It’s the kind of fractured world where fascism takes root.
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One Battle After Another isn’t about historical fascism—it’s about the conditions that enable it. From its white supremacist cabal, militarized “policing,” and farcical political violence, we ask what the film says about America right now.
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In this episode, we watch Hans Westmar so you don’t have to—an incoherent piece of Reich cinema that rewrites street violence, demonizes “cosmopolitan” Berlin, and ends with a Communist literally converting his raised fist into a Hitler salute.
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New Episode of Fascism on Film
The Nazis made comedies, romances, even musicals—none of them harmless. We break down Hitler’s Hollywood and the propaganda hidden in plain sight.
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New Episode of Fascism on Film!
Beneath the smoke, the piano, and the Hollywood glow, Casablanca is anti-fascist propaganda with a heartbeat.
A story about finding your conscience when the world’s on fire.
#fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #Casablanca
New episode of Fascism on Film!
Everyone Loves to Hate a Nazi: Inglourious Basterds
We unpack Tarantino’s “movie about WWII movies,” from Hans Landa’s menace to Shoshanna turning cinema into a weapon—we ask what it means to cheer when the villains burn.
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François Truffaut’s The Last Metro is set inside a Paris theater under Nazi occupation. Every character is faced with a choice of how to survive. #fascismonfilm #fascism #filmhistory #truffaut #lastmetro #filmsky #moviesky
New Episode of Fascism on Film Podcast!
In The Last Metro, Truffaut shows how art survives fascism. Above the stage, they perform for the crowd; below it, they fight to stay alive.
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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)
In Vichy Casablanca, rounding up “the usual suspects” — liberals, refugees, anyone with the wrong papers — passes for justice. Fascism uses procedure for persecution.
#fascismonfilm #casablanca #filmsky #moviesky
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)
In 1942, Rick’s “I stick my neck out for nobody” echoed America’s prewar mood — and a French collaborator approves.
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This Land Is Mine (Jean Renoir, 1943)
A school is confronted with book burning and censorship. Will they comply or resist?
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) schools us on the underlying ideology of fascism — the use of force.
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Hans Westmar (Franz Wenzler, 1933)
An Antifa group attacks a fascist in the street. But this isn’t resistance. It’s Nazi propaganda, recasting fascists as innocent victims of left-wing violence.
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Black Legion (Archie Mayo, 1937)
In 1937 Hollywood knew what fascism looked like.
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New Episode of the Fascism on Film Podcast!
Fritz Lang’s 'The Testament of Dr. Mabuse' was the first film banned by the Nazi Joseph Goebbels, who feared its depiction of chaos, hypnosis, and control might undermine the methods of the new regime.
#fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #fascism
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.
#FascismOnFilm #BirthOfANation #filmsky #moviesky
New Episode of Fascism on Film Podcast
In this episode of the Fascism on Film Podcast, we discuss Joseph Losey’s 1976 masterpiece Mr. Klein, set in Nazi-occupied France.
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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
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.
#fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #Casablanca
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
#fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky
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.
#fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #fascism
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.
#fascismonfilm #filmsky #Casablanca
