MestnyiGeroi's "100+ Politically Bold Movies"

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A subjective selection of films that I have seen (and can recall) that are politically bold in nature. Boldness here is not defined simply by the power of the statement made, but by an element of risk in making the film—that risk being at the least some degree of potential flak or backlash, and at the most the loss of career or even life.

I am sure I’ve missed dozens of deserving choices, so any recommendations are welcome. And again, obviously this list is subjective and arbitrary; a complete list of all politically courageous films would number in the thousands, surely.

And finally, while it can well be argued that all things are political, I have limited my selections to films that entail politics in the most conventional sense, rather than, say, a movie that is shocking in its treatment of religion or gender, etc.

The movies are listed in chronological order.

[Here is a companion list of Politically Craven Movies—http://www.listsofbests.com/list/54692]

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  1. 51.
    Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  2. 52.
    The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

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  3. 53.
    Salt of the Earth

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  4. 54.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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  5. 55.
    Night and Fog - Criterion Collection
    by Alain Resnais

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  6. 56.
    The Big Knife
    by Robert Aldrich

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  7. 57.
    The Searchers (Two-Disc Anniversary Edition)
    by John Ford

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  8. 58.
    The Carnival Night / Karnavalnaya Noch
    by Eldar Ryazanov

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  9. 59.
    Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection
    by Federico Fellini

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  10. 60.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

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  11. 61.
    A Face in the Crowd
    by Elia Kazan

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  12. 62.
    The Wide Blue Road

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  13. 65.
    Fires on the Plain - Criterion Collection
    by Kon Ichikawa

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  14. 66.
    Room at the Top
    by Jack Clayton

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  15. 67.
    Breathless

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  16. 68.
    Saturday Night And Sunday Morning
    by Karel Reisz

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  17. 69.
    Victim (Ws B&W)
    by Basil Dearden

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  18. 70.
    Ivan's Childhood / Ivanovo Detstvo (1962)
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  19. 71.
    Exterminating Angel
    by Luis Bunuel

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  20. 72.
    Mamma Roma - Criterion Collection
    by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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  21. 73.
    This Sporting Life

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  22. 75.
    The Americanization of Emily
    by Arthur Hiller

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  23. 76.
    The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

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  24. 77.

  25. 78.
    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  26. 79.
    Kes
    by Ken Loach

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  27. 80.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    by Ronald Neame

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  28. 81.
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    Z (1969, Costa-Gavras)

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  29. 82.
    Little Big Man

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  30. 83.
    The Sorrow and the Pity

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  31. 84.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

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  32. 85.
    The Conversation

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  33. 87.
    Hearts and Minds - Criterion Collection
    by Peter Davis (II)

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  34. 88.
    Dersu Uzala
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  35. 89.

  36. 91.
    Network
    by Sidney Lumet

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  37. 92.
    That Obscure Object of Desire - Criterion Collection
    by Luis Buñuel

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  38. 93.
    Killer of Sheep

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  39. 94.
    The Tree of Wooden Clogs
    by Ermanno Olmi

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  40. 96.
    Norma Rae

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  41. 97.
    Pixote
    by Hector Babenco

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  42. 98.
    El Norte [NTSC / Region 1 - Latin American Import]
    by Gregory Nava

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  43. 99.
    Brazil

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  44. 100.
    Come and See
    by Elem Klimov

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