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Great political movies (No17) Queimada (Burn!)
Everyone seems to have seen The Battle of Algiers, which I reviewed last week. However for some reason it’s follow-up, Queimada, better known by its title in the US, ‘Burn!’, is now undeservedly...
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Political advertising (No5) Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
In the 2004 presidential election, George W Bush faced something of a problem. Thanks partly to the events of 911 and the subsequent Wars on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, he had managed to...
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Great political documentaries (No5) Control Room
The first casualty of war is usually….truth?….innocence?….steady camera work? One of the big questions faced by all reporters is how to do their jobs properly during conflicts, especially if it...
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Political advertising (No6) Morning in America
One of the interesting things I’ve noticed when analysing adverts for this blog, is how many attack ads have been produced over the past fifty years or so. Most are unremittingly bleak in tone,...
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Great political movies (No23) Nixon
“When people look at you they see what they want to be, when they look at me they see what they are”. As a one-liner it’s hard to beat and pretty much sums up the appeal of the whole movie for …...
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Great political documentaries (No6) The Most Dangerous Man in America
Secrecy can be a powerful thing. Occasionally there is a valid case for governments to keep things from their citizens. For instance issues relating to national security. However, sometimes the people...
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Great mistakes in politics (No27) Gerald Ford states there is no Soviet...
Sometimes you hear a politician say something and you have to ask yourself, ‘Did they just say that’? One of the most famous examples I can think of is Gerald Ford during the 1976 Presidential debates...
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Great political documentaries (No14) The Fog of War
There are the good political documentaries, there are the great political documentaries and then there is The Fog of War. Thomas Jefferson once said about Thomas Paine, ‘it will be your glory to have...
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Great mistakes in politics (No28) Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon
To date Richard Nixon is the only man to ever resign the Presidency of the United States of America. If he hadn’t resigned it’s almost certain he would have been impeached and forcibly removed from...
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Great political documentaries (No25) Hearts and Minds
There have been hundreds of films and documentaries over the years attempting to explain what went wrong in Vietnam. Hearts and Minds was one of the first and best, and is notable for being released...
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