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Long but no "Titanic."
Entertaining but probably more fiction than fact
Fropm Sun Yat Sen to Mao Zedong
A good film with some key weaknesses
A modern classic tragedy

The Last Emperor - Director's Cut
Starring: John Lone , Joan Chen , Peter O'Toole , Ruocheng Ying , and Victor Wong (III)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
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Release Date: 1999-02-23

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Everything that was good about the 163-minute theatrical release of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor in 1987 is even better in this new 218-minute director's cut. By contrast, much that was peculiarly distant and lifeless the first time around isn't really better or worse in this edition. Conclusion: the net gains are considerable if you invest time to appreciate Bertolucci's full feeling for the odd story of Pu Yi, China's final monarch. You remember the saga: taken from his mother at the age of three, Pu Yi is brought into the enclosed walls of the Forbidden City to replace the real emperor. There he becomes a pampered prisoner and hollow symbol of an older monarchy that has since given way to a ruthless, 20th century republic. With his pining loyalists beheaded or kept at bay by armed soldiers outside the City's walls, Pu Yi is tutored by an English gentleman (Peter O'Toole) and wed to a kindred spirit (Joan Chen). Eventually cast from his gated paradise, Pu Yi (wonderfully portrayed in adulthood by John Lone) becomes, by turns, a playboy, a dupe to the Japanese, and a victim of China's cultural reforms and re-education programs. This longer cut largely top-loads the film with greater reason to feel compassion for the emperor, with his often wordless sense-adventure in the mysteries that could only be known to one little boy plunged into indecipherable alien decorum, robbed of self-determination and common sense by his infinite privilege. Added scenes (including some in the political rehabilitation camp where Pu Yi is held for a decade) fill out not so much added facts as density of experience. This improved The Last Emperor is richer in soul and a pronounced sense of Bertolucci actually directing this film in the most personal and profound sense. --Tom Keogh

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Long but no "Titanic.".......2007-05-12

Visually spectacular and perhaps necessarily static, "The Last Emperor" limits the options of all but the most imaginative of directors. I'm not a fan of long movies (especially if that means another "Titanic"), but Bertolucci's visual compositions in conjunction with authentic period feel and some good acting made the film both bearable and enjoyable. What's missing is an authentic sense of the tragic (how can such an unfortunate, shielded, quarantined victim of circumstance be convincingly shown to have a "fatal flaw"?) and, more regrettably, a moving, memorable sense of the elegiac. The material the director is working with would seem to allow multiple possibilities for conveying a profound sense of loss, of inexorable change occurring within the context of painful memories which nevertheless serve as consolations, filling the void produced by the tyranny of time and change. But Bertolucci seems so averse to the melodramatic mode (essential to effective elegy) and attached to the notion of spectacle that the movie simply fails to connect as personally as it should.

Although "The Last Emperor" took the Best Picture award, it was released during the same year as "Empire of the Sun," arguably Spielberg's most complex, impressive cinematic achievement. A movie set in Shanghai, it offers more insight into the Western and Japanese occupation of China than into the Chinese themselves. Yet it resonates with life and energy, violence and destruction, death and loss--seen through the eyes of another Spielberg innocent--as Bertolucci's "Important Great Film" does not. It's cinematic spectacle that goes beyond artful travelog or illustrated history, providing a perspective that is at once universal and intimately personal. In my mind, Spielberg, perhaps for the one and only time, got robbed by the Academy.

Entertaining but probably more fiction than fact.......2007-04-07

I found this film, yes....long! I was so bored and depressed by the first 45 minutes that I stopped watching it. However, for some reason I tried again the next night. Fortunately that's when Peter O'Toole entered and things perked up considerably. After that I was hooked and sat still without squirming or snacking for the remainder...almost three hours.

Visually, the film is amazing, as you can expect from Bertolucci. The shots inside the Forbidden City alone, make the it worth watching. As time passes the costumes and decors are equally interesting.

The actors are perfect. John Lone is terrific. He is so handsome and sympathetic that he makes you care deeply about a man, who probably wasn't really that nice. Joan Chen as the beautiful Empress is a perfect match. Peter O'Toole is always a delight to watch. The supporting actors are all wonderful, especially the man who played the Governor of the prison.

I found the comments of many of the readers instructive and interesting. My knowledge of this period of history is negligible so I am open to suggestions... It seems, from what several people have written that Bertolucci, a member of the Communist party, softsoaped the treatment that the prisoners endured, which casts grave doubts on the accuracy of the story. Several others have commented that the Emperor was gay while another person wrote that he was married five times. ??? So with the accuracy of the facts up in the air, I decided to just take the film on its own terms and enjoy it...seeing it almost as a work of fiction, "based on" some true characters. As such I can love it. I prefer to see the Emperor as a basically good man, innocent and with good intentions, who was a victim of his situation. Again John Lone is such a lovely person that I found it hard to see him as anything less, although the real Emperor might truly have been a creep.

The basic story is fascinating, and I, for one, to do not see it as tragic that he ended up as a gardener. He seemed to be happier in his last days than he ever had been...arranging the plants and smiling at his co-workers. He seemed to have found a state of peace and even joy that was truly lovely. The closing scene in the palace is charming, although I found his sudden "disappearance" inappropriately strange. (Also...I had to wonder how long that cricket had been in the box?)

For all its flaws, and I think there are plenty, the film is so rich that most people will certainly find a lot to appreciate and enjoy.

Fropm Sun Yat Sen to Mao Zedong.......2007-03-29

A very strange film about China. To look at the history of this country in the first seven decades of the 20th century through the exclusive eyes of the last emperor who lived locked up in the Forbidden City all his life till he was freed by the Japanese and marched to Manchuria to become the last emperor there is kind of debilitating and disappointing. Then he was captured by Mao Zedong's troops and was re-educated in some kind of rehabilitation camp and finished his life as a gardener. At the end of his life he saw the mounting pressure coming from the Red Guards and announcing the Cultural Revolution. The vision is both sorry and disappointed in a way. But does this film present a picture of this man, or of China, or of the world that is worth remembering? He is too capricious to be in anyway great or even remembered. He lost all his power when Sun Yat Sen arrived and yet he survived as some kind of a symbol that the Japanese used. He accepted to sell himself to the Japanese as this symbol precisely. But he more or less gracefully acknowledged the fact later on, though we will never know whether he agreed with the rehabilitation procedure or just suffered it and tolerated it out of surviving interest. Rather beautiful though if anything.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

A good film with some key weaknesses.......2007-02-05

I found the overall storyline of this movie to be compelling and interesting - it is just too long. The original theatrical version ran 160 minutes. This DVD cut runs 218 minutes. Unless the film is "Gone with the Wind", few people are going to sit through any movie that runs three and a half hours. This film is one of only three total Best Picture winners that won every one of the awards for which it was nominated, but strangely enough it received no nominations for acting. I found this odd, since I thought that one of the film's finer points were its performances.

In this film, Pu-Yi grows to a man who was deposed as the last emperor of China while still a child, and thus he wanders from country to country as a young man who is wealthy but without purpose. Thus, never really coming to terms with the fact that he is no longer king, he jumps at the chance to sell himself out as a puppet to the Japanese when they offer him the opportunity to rule at least part of China again. As Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu-Yi is blind to the barborous acts and experiments that the Japanese perform upon his subjects, blind to the fact that his wife has an affair with a servant to produce a royal heir, and most of all, blind to his role as puppet in the Japanese scheme for world domination. Not until the end of World War II does he seem to even have an inkling of what has been going on.

Now for the part of the movie to which I really object. Although it is compelling to see Pu-Yi slowly owe up to his responsibility for what happened in China during the Japanese occupation and come to terms with the fact that he is, after all, just a man like any other man, I strongly object to the Maoists as the good-guys in this quest for redemption. The Communist Chinese did the same type of reindoctrination on many other people - among them Christian missionaries, Buddhist monks, and believers in democracy and a free press - anyone who simply got in their way and needed their world view "readjusted". On top of that, how the Communists reindoctrinate people in this film is G-rated compared to what really went on in such camps. For details, consult the novel "1984". These points are completely whitewashed.

As for my rating, I subtract one star for the film being overly long, and another star for the portrayal of the Communist Chinese as the patient and kindly savers of lost souls. Without these two flaws, this would have pretty much been a perfect film. Thus I give it three total stars.

A modern classic tragedy.......2007-02-01

Ever since I first saw this film shortly after it first became available on VHS, it has been one of my favorite films of all time. Disregarding the technical comments by some of the reviewers, this film, in any format, is worth watching. I believe it is a classic tragedy in the Aristotelian sense--a rare treat these days. We witness the tragic fall of Pu Yi from sumptuous, sensuous magnificence to the squalor of a prison camp and finally a life as a simple gardener. The visual worlds collide in a clash of cultures and hubris. If I were still teaching dramatic theory I would require this film to be viewed alongside Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, and King Lear.

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Point of Order!
MASTERFULLY EDITED TO MAGNIFY McCARTHY'S MALEVOLENCE
Additional information for those who already have some knowledge about McCarthy.
McCARTTHY 'SDOWNFALL-BUT NOT OF McCARTHYISM!
McCarthy's Come-Uppance

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Starring: Roy M. Cohn , Joseph McCarthy (II) , and Joseph N. Welch
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Why We Fight

ASIN: B000A59PO2
Release Date: 2005-11-15

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Point of Order!.......2007-06-28

First released in 1964, this invaluable piece of visual history places the fall of McCarthy-ism in lucid, dramatic context. While most of us have seen Boston lawyer (and Army counsel) Joseph Welch's pivotal repudiation of McCarthy ("At long last, Senator...") few remember what led up to it, which only heightens its history-making impact. It's fascinating to see smarmy McCarthy counsel Roy Cohn go up against Welch and Senator Stuart Symington on charges of currying blatant favoritism for Army enlistee G. David Schine (Cohn's lover). Watching McCarthy himself is spooky, as we have to wonder how a man like this could amass such destructive power. A must-see.

MASTERFULLY EDITED TO MAGNIFY McCARTHY'S MALEVOLENCE.......2007-05-22

The Army-McCarthy hearings in which the demagogic Senator, Joseph McCarthy, and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, were charged with having attempted to blackmail special treatment from the Army for their partner-in-crime, Private David G. Schine, took a total of 36 days. That's an awful lot of testimony, and it captured the attention of the American public like nothing before. It would be nearly four decades before the O.J. Simpson trial would equal its theatrics and stir up equal or greater interest among the people.

POINT OF ORDER is a distillation of those 36 days that rocked America, it is a great ninety-seven minute movie, an exceptionally well-constructed documentary in which producer and editor, Emile de Antonio, painstakingly pored over all of the testimony given in the Army-McCarthy Hearings and from that massive collection of old TV kinescopes, he assembled a picture that shall forever stand as an indictment and proof of Senator Joseph McCarthy's shameful acts, his wicked calumny. Emile de Antonio has selected particular segments of the hearings in order to show McCarthy in his worst light and to expose him as the liar and slanderer that he was; a man who recklessly smeared the reputations of countless innocent Americans, dogging them with false accusations of Communistic involvement, who in the process, created a "Red Scare" in this country that had decent Americans in government and the entertainment industry in fear. No one could be sure who McCarthy would falsely accuse next, and as a result, the American people became fearful of their friends and family members, fearful of all of their associations.

The era of "McCarthyism" was one of the worst in American history, and when it became clear that the malicious McCarthy had to be stopped, the Army Hearings brought attention to the man's irrational behavior, and shortly afterwards, censure charges were brought against him in the Senate, and his own colleagues found him guilty of acts "contrary to senatorial tradition." The evil had finally been confronted and conquered!

Emile de Antonio's masterful editing in POINT OF ORDER gets right to the heart of the matter; utilizing clips of McCarthy's worst behavior during the Army-McCarthy Hearings, it puts on full display the malevolence that was Senator McCarthy. The big highlight of the proceedings is when the lawyer, Joe Welch, indignantly asks McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" The lawyer's question for the senator finally shows who the real enemy is. All Americans should see this documentary and learn the truth about Senator McCarthy, so that an informed vigilance will prevent any future "McCarthys" from terrorizing the country we love.

Additional information for those who already have some knowledge about McCarthy........2007-01-10

If you are unfamiliar with McCarthyism this is not the DVD to buy. However, if you have some knowledge about the political agenda of those years it is very interesting. Even if only pieces of the hearings that lasted for many days are shown, you will be able to see the debate's argumenting-tactics and the basic view of those participating. It is always a benefit be able to see and hear persons that were a part of our history. Because it is documentary, de Antonio has limited possibility to give us his point of view only.
This DVD should be of interest worldwide. May I recommend it in combination with some Stalin biography. Try to find some early 50-ies looking-glasses. It's understandable...isn't it?

McCARTTHY 'SDOWNFALL-BUT NOT OF McCARTHYISM!.......2006-06-30

This DVD is a documentary taken from kinescopes (pre-video-tape tapes) of the key moments of the Army-MCCarthy hearings which took place in 1954.Senator Joseph McCarthy(R-Wis.),had made quite a name for himself by accussing almost(it seems) every liberal,and some not so liberal politician,pundit,high-brow,and intellectual of being "Red",in some way,of being an ally of"Uncle Jo" Stalin and the Kremlin.When he accussed the U,S.Army of deliberately hiding subversives,that was the act that sealed his fate.The highlight,of the documentary,is the confrontation between McCarthy and chief counsel for the Army Joseph Welch(later to gain even more fame as the Judge in the Jimmy Stewart courtroom drama,"Anatomy of a Murder)McCarthy after much goating by Welch loses this cool and brings up the membership in The National Lawyers Guild(cited as "subversive"by the Attorney General and "under control" of the American Communist Party) by Welch's young associate Fred Fisher.Indeed,Welch admitted Young Republican Fisher while in Law School was for a time a member of the Guild,but that when he found out the the NLG was on the AG list,he resigned his membership from the organization.For the outrage of exposing Fisher,Welch ripped into Senator Joe and that confrontation eventually led to McCarthy's censure by the U.S.Senate,and early death aided by excessive drinking by the Senator.
My only question is ;Why did the political "outing" of Fisher cause such a fuss?Because of this former Guild membership was Welch going to fire him? No! And if Fisher went to any other Law Firm,he would bcome that firm's prize catch-He "helped bring down McCarthy".The reasons these hearings caused the "downfall" of McCarthy was because "The Establishment",wanted McCarthy to be cut down to size,they wanted him brought down because he was getting to big for his britches,and he had SEVERED his purpose in getting the American public in tune with the "Red Menace" and getting a certain segment of the population to equate "liberalism(any leftism -which really doesn't have to be that far left or left at all)) with Communism".Senator Joseph McCarthy died in 1957,but McCarthyism did not die,to this day Conservatives in particular like to question American citizens loyality whenever that citizen/or citizens question the motives,methods, or deeds of the U.S. Government or of business,especially so-called "Big Business".An excellent documentary 5 Stars

McCarthy's Come-Uppance.......2006-06-20

Twenty years before the nationally-televised Watergate hearings, there were the nationally-televised Army-McCarthy Hearings. For 36 days in the early summer of 1954 much of the nation was glued to their old black-and-white TV sets, watching the unraveling of a demogogue whose reach had finally exceeded his grasp. De Antonio's film is something of a rare-bird within the documentary genre, in that he lets the protagonists tell the story without a narrator informing the viewer what they are witnessing. The optional feature of director's commentary lends an entirely new dimension to the film. A true masterpiece in documentary film-making.

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James Wood's acting right up there with Pacino and DeNiro!
Truth over Fantasy
Brilliant Acting
Imaginative look at Roy Cohn
A riveting movie

Citizen Cohn
Starring: James Woods , Joe Don Baker , Joseph Bologna , Ed Flanders , and Frederic Forrest
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ASIN: B00005B8U4
Release Date: 2001-07-10

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James Woods seems to find his most adventurous roles in television movies, particularly this made-for-HBO biography of the late lawyer and powerbroker Roy Cohn. A hallucinatory, impressionistic look at his career and life, the film is comprised of flashbacks by Cohn, who is seen dying of AIDS in 1988 in his New York hospital bed. Woods sinks his teeth deeply into the role of the shark-like Cohn, capturing his arrogance and his insecurity, both at his own Jewishness and his deeply closeted homosexuality, even as he rides Sen. Joe McCarthy's anti-Communism campaign for all it's worth. Woods even manages to make the deeply detestable Cohn vulnerable, if not sympathetic. A strong supporting cast includes Joe Don Baker as an amused and calculating McCarthy, but the film lives and breathes in Woods's flamboyantly nuanced embodiment of the whiny, manipulative Cohn. --Marshall Fine

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James Wood's acting right up there with Pacino and DeNiro!.......2007-06-08

I saw this movie and was stunned regarding the raw acting talents of Mr. Woods...Boy!...He took my breath away, It was as if he lived the part....he made you forget you were watching a movie,that you were just sneaking a peek into the real life of a dysfunctonal human being.Speaking of Cohn....How come no one could see through all of his shananigans?...His lifestyle, lies, deceits,and disrespect of the court system.These manipulations should have given his oppositions a clue as to what they were dealing with. Sandee

Truth over Fantasy.......2006-12-17

A brilliant movie that gives me the fantasy that I wish I could bring Roy Cohn back to life only so I can kill him personally! Roy Cohn was not a human being but rather a scum sucking rodent not worthy of the dirt under anyone's feet. What makes it all the more chilling is ... He lived and died in fact not fiction.

Brilliant Acting.......2005-02-13

James Woods gives a brilliant and very realistic performance. The story is told of Cohn's rise to power, his ruthless treatment of 'communists', and his slow but eventual downfall, first when he meets his match in a clever army lawyer, then in a woman he should have taken a little more seriously, and then in illness and death. The portrayal of the gassing of Ms. Rosenberg is not something that I will forget easily. And often, when the obsessions of this Cohn character get to be so unnerving, that you wonder, how can this continue????, the scene jumps to his deathbed. Highly recommended.

Imaginative look at Roy Cohn.......2003-12-19

When Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy muscled his way onto a committee investigating communist subversives in the government, he brought along with him Roy Cohn. The son of a New York state judge and a brilliant lawyer in his own right, young Cohn saw McCarthy's committee as a way to increase his own social and political position. After all, this hotshot lawyer helped send the Rosenbergs to the electric chair, so a stint busting Reds in the government seemed a logical progression for him. After the collapse of McCarthyism and the subsequent waning of the Red Scare, Roy moved into a private legal practice in New York. Many considered this lawyer one of the most brilliant legal minds in the country, and Cohn got plenty of work in high profile divorce cases and even worked with members of the Mafia on occasion. Roy Cohn died in 1986, a disbarred lawyer reduced to a shattered husk of the dealmaker he once was. HBO thought Roy Cohn an intriguing enough character to fund this shrill 1992 effort starring the venerable James Woods as "Citizen Cohn."

The movie tells us that young Cohn quickly fell under the spell of his overbearing mother, an unnaturally close relationship that would last as long as she lived. Roy's father, a liberal judge with the firm idea that "what's right never changes," soon comes to despise his overly ambitious son and his morally suspect ways. After assisting in the conviction of the Rosenbergs, Cohn ingratiates himself with McCarthy in order to serve as the junior senator's chief counsel and personal attack dog. Moreover, Roy tells McCarthy that making Bobby Kennedy chief counsel for the committee (yes, RFK did a stint with McCarthy) could raise ugly charges of anti-Semitism because most of the men called in to testify are Jews. McCarthy soon regrets his decision as Cohn quickly takes over by grabbing the spotlight and developing most of the cases. The new chief counsel even insists on hiring G. David Shine, a hotel heir who doesn't know a thing about how to conduct a proper witch-hunt. It isn't any time at all before Cohn threatens people like Dashiell Hammett and the engineers working for the Voice of America in a shameful series of interrogations resulting in wrecked careers and ruined lives. When the United States Army drafts Shine, Cohn launches a personal vendetta against the Department of the Army. His goal is to procure an assignment for Shine on the committee, but the Army sees things differently. The military recorded dozens of threats Roy made against them and threaten to release them to the media if McCarthy and Cohn refuse to back off. The case does go to committee and the Army's attorney, Joseph Welch, publicly destroys the Wisconsin senator.

The rest of the film shows Roy in his post-McCarthy days: the endless deal making, the unethical behavior, and his closely guarded double life. We see Cohn attempting to work with J. Edgar Hoover to bring down the hated Bobby Kennedy, now the Attorney General of the United States and a man with a personal vendetta against the former McCarthy acolyte. There is a trial where the government brings a host of charges against Roy and cannot make them stick. We see how Cohn accepts money from people as "loans" and then promptly claims that these loans were "gifts." Through it all, no one can ever touch Roy Cohn; he is "the gingerbread boy," a blazing comet that threatens to destroy anyone who stands in his way. His amazement that no one stops him from lying, cheating, stealing, and intimidating people only serves to make him more obnoxious. No one tells Roy Cohn no, and he knows it.

The narrative technique used to tell his story is through flashback, as the ghosts of those Roy once terrorized visit him as he lies dying in a hospital room. These are not happy spirits: Ethel Rosenberg makes an appearance sneering and jeering at Cohn for convicting her of treason. She even charges that Roy did it because of her ethnicity, a claim Cohn rejects when he says he did it for the headlines. Some of these visits are slightly humorous, such as the revenant of Joseph Welch saying, "Have you no sense of mortality, sir, at long last? They need the room." Seeing Roy's mother show up and complain about her son dumping her ashes in the East River is worth a chuckle or two as well.

James Woods does his usual bang up job as the abrasive Roy Cohn and Joe Don Baker bumbles and harrumphs his way through the role of Joe McCarthy. These are the two stand out actors in the film, as the other characters necessarily come and go quickly in an effort to fit as much of Cohn's life into the picture as possible. Even then much of Roy's life is missing. The later sections of the film skip as many as ten years in order spend more time with the McCarthy hearings. While I recognize a screenwriter is going to focus on the Red Scare more than anything else because of the Hollywood Ten and all that stuff, that is no excuse to engage in the type of rampant rumor seen here. J. Edgar Hoover, Francis Cardinal Spellman, and G. David Shine are the targets of the wildest speculations. I guess it is easier to make these brazen charges against people when they are dead than it is when they are alive. Still, despite the historical tightrope "Citizen Cohn" teeters on, watching James Woods in yet another frothing at the mouth performance always pays off in the end.

A riveting movie.......2003-10-25

I don't know who they were giving oscars to in the year this movie came out but (as always) they fail to give them to the movie or the actors which deserve them and James Woods and the citisen Cohn sure deserved some oscar recognition for this masterpiece

For history buffs such as myself this movie is one of those you can watch again and again

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On November 9, 1989 after nearly three decades of separation, East and West Berliners breeched the wall that forced them apart. As East Germany's Communist leadership opened the gates, crowds clamored atop the wall, tearing chunks away from the iconic image of the iron curtain. Join Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson for coverage from the day it happened -- including a live interview with President Reagan.

Vintage Communism Films DVD Communism in Asia & the Soviet Union: China, Korea, Russia USSR & Joseph Stalin Films (from Cold War & Communism Films Collection)

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Vintage Communism Films DVD Communism in Asia & the Soviet Union: China, Korea, Russia USSR & Joseph Stalin Films (from Cold War & Communism Films Collection)

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Vintage Communism Films DVD Political Cartoons: Cold War Anti Communist Propaganda Animation (from Cold War & Communism Films Collection)
Vintage Cold War Films DVD Economics: Pros & Cons of Communism, Socialism, Capitalism & Free Market Laissez-Faire Economic Policy (from Cold War & Communism Films Collection)
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Vintage Cold War Films DVD American Freedom: Capitalism Propaganda & Anti Communist Movies (from Cold War & Communism Films Collection)
Biography - Vladimir Lenin: Voice of Revolution

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Challenge Of Ideas (1961) - 25 minutes running time - Communism vs. Capitalism classic. Appearances by John Wayne and others to discuss the pitfalls communism and the glory of American freedom. Communism (1952) - 10 minutes running time - Shows the spread of the Nazis and has rare footage of old Russian leaders including Stalin. Hits home all the cold war communism propaganda points. Red China (1964) - 25 minutes running time - China history lesson filled with Anti-Chinese propaganda. Lots of pictures of the Chinese Army and desperate poor and desolate Chinese people. Crime Of Korea (1950) - 15 minutes running time - Korean history lesson from the American perspective during the Cold War. Pictures of impoverished children, the Korean Army, and Korean leaders.

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Not that good

The Fall of Communism
Starring: Pierre Salinger
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Hiroshima - Why the Bomb Was Dropped

ASIN: B000060MVC
Release Date: 2002-11-26

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Not that good.......2004-09-28

They kind of pass over important events. Like Soviet involvement in Korea, Vietnam. They also fail to show that if such a "monster" moves, reacts, launches initiative to conquer, it is in reaction toward another "monters" move.

They fail to show the "why"'s of Soviets international decisions. This is because they solely focus on Russia, which is useless for a documentary about Russia. They HAVE to explain US & NATO moves also so we understand a little bit better the whole picture.

Nonetheless, this documentary still hold some interesting information about former CCCP, but presented in some boring way because of the above issue.

Documentary was out in 1990, so don't expect to get a present picture of Russia and it's ex-sattelites.

Charlie Rose with Lester Thurow; Gardner Taylor; Gary Hart (June 5, 1996)

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Charlie Rose with Lester Thurow; Gardner Taylor; Gary Hart (June 5, 1996)

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First, economist Lester Thurow examines the future of the Capitalism. He explores the underlying forces threatening financial stability and reshaping global economy. Then, Reverend Gardner Taylor, who has served as a pastor at Brooklyn's Concord Baptist Church of Christ for 42 years, is now its pastor emeritus. He talks about his life work and the issue of race in America. Lawyer, and former presidential candidate Gary Hart talks about emerging as an advocate for political change with this book, The Patriot: An Exhortation to Liberate America From the Barbarians, which examines the essential qualities of modern leadership.

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Point of Order!
MASTERFULLY EDITED TO MAGNIFY McCARTHY'S MALEVOLENCE
Additional information for those who already have some knowledge about McCarthy.
McCARTTHY 'SDOWNFALL-BUT NOT OF McCARTHYISM!
McCarthy's Come-Uppance

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Starring: Roy M. Cohn , Joseph McCarthy (II) , and Joseph N. Welch
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In the Year of the Pig
The Edward R. Murrow Collection
Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition)
The Edward R. Murrow: The McCarthy Years
Why We Fight

ASIN: B000A88ESC
Release Date: 2005-09-20

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The art of political theater was first introduced into Americans' homes when television cameras captured 188 hours over six weeks of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings. Director Emile de Antonio (In the Year of the Pig, Underground) was able to acquire and assemble the footage from those landmark broadcasts to create Point of Order, one of the most riveting and seminal documentaries ever made. A devastating portrait of the legendary Senator Joseph McCarthy, this extraordinary Cold War-era film is the definitive documentary about television's coming of age, and its burgeoning role in exposing the abuse of power.

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Point of Order!.......2007-06-28

MASTERFULLY EDITED TO MAGNIFY McCARTHY'S MALEVOLENCE.......2007-05-22

Additional information for those who already have some knowledge about McCarthy........2007-01-10

McCARTTHY 'SDOWNFALL-BUT NOT OF McCARTHYISM!.......2006-06-30

McCarthy's Come-Uppance.......2006-06-20

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