Roger Ebert's 20 Best Political Films of the Last Two Decades

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This is for the May/June, 1996 issue of Mother Jones, so the years covered are roughly 1976 – 1996.

Only one film per director. Films are in chronological order.

  1. 1.
    The War at Home

  2. 2.
    Mephisto
    by István Szabó

  3. 3.
    El Norte [NTSC / Region 1 - Latin American Import]
    by Gregory Nava

  4. 4.
    Testament
    by Lynne Littman

  5. 5.
    Secret Honor (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Altman

  6. 6.
    Shoah
    by Claude Lanzmann

  7. 7.
    Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam
    by Bill Couturie

  8. 8.
    Running on Empty

  9. 9.
    Born on the Fourth of July (Special Edition)
    by Oliver Stone

  10. 10.
    Do the Right Thing

  11. 11.
    Roger & Me
    by Michael Moore

  12. 12.
    American Dream
    by Barbara Kopple

  13. 13.
    Hidden Agenda
    by Ken Loach

  14. 14.
    Boyz 'N The Hood

  15. 15.
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    City of Hope
    by John Sayles

  16. 16.
    Grand Canyon

  17. 17.
    The Blue Kite
    by Zhuangzhuang Tian

  18. 18.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  19. 19.

  20. 20.
    Dead Man Walking
    by Tim Robbins

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Created by MestnyiGeroi on Jan 05, 2008.
 

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