The 1981 "end of days" film Early Warning now seems oddly prescient in some ways. As you can see in this clip, it predicted a future in which leaders from around the world would gather to strategize coordinated management of the world's population, taking advantage of crises ("never waste a crisis") to implement tracking numbers, measures to control public opinion, digital … [Read more...]
George Orwell: Happy Angel Birthday!
George Orwell (the pen name for Eric Arthur Blair) was born on June 25th, 1903. Few in history did more to warn the public about the dangers of totalitarianism. Several films based on Orwell's works are available, including three versions of 1984, and two of Animal Farm (1,2). The definitive film version of 1984 is the one released that very year, starring John Hurt. … [Read more...]
Justice Clarence Thomas: Happy Birthday!
US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was born on June 23rd, 1948. He is a fan of Ayn Rand and has decided libertarian leanings. No wonder the left did everything it could to try to keep him off the Supreme Court. As he himself put it: “‘I felt as though in my life I had been looking at the wrong people as the people who would be problematic toward me. We were told that, … [Read more...]
Father’s Day: Three Films To Celebrate The Day
Three good libertarian films to watch on Father's Day are Tank, a 1984 film starring James Garner; After the Promise, a 1987 film starring Mark Harmon; and the 1982 Disney film Night Crossing. Tank is a chase film about an Army sergeant who uses his own Sherman tank to rescue his son from a corrupt local sheriff and make a run for the state border. This film has heart and … [Read more...]
John Hurt: Libertarian Film Hero
John Hurt -- born January 22nd, 1940 -- was an English actor whose career spanned over half a century. He made three films of libertarian interest, all of them focused on the dangers of totalitarian states, and all of them among the most dead-on libertarian films ever made. Two are included in this website's top 25 list and the third is included in other libertarian top … [Read more...]
Cambodian Day of Remembrance: Five Films to Honor the Dead
Pol Pot and his gang of Khmer Rouge socialist comrades murdered 25% of Cambodian citizens, in total somewhere around two million lives, in the span of just five years (1975-1979). Cambodia declared May 20th to be a day of remembrance to honor these dead. Pol Pot was taught the wonders of agrarian socialism while attending college in France, and returned home with a … [Read more...]
How Centrists And Moderates Became Right-Wing
UPDATE: Elon Musk, whose political positions have generally been moderate, at times even slightly left-wing, is now a "right-winger." Per Daily Wire: "'I have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically,' Musk acknowledged. 'Like I’m not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear. Now this election I will." Several academic and polling studies … [Read more...]
What Was That Movie Called? Here’s A Tool To Find It
What was that movie called about [fill in the blank]? Yeah, there's a movie you saw a long time ago but you just can't remember the name and you really want to see it again. Or you have a topic and you'd like movies along those lines. Or you know of a movie and you'd like to find similar ones. Well, here's an online AI-based tool to help you find it. … [Read more...]
May 1: Victims of Communism Day | Ten Films to Honor the Dead
Perhaps as many as a hundred million people were victims of communism in the last century, deliberately rounded up, shot, starved, or simply forced to march into snowy wasteland until dead, exterminated by communist regimes. The most comprehensive statistical source for democide statistics, Death By Government, puts the toll at 106 million. Necrometrics estimates that Stalin … [Read more...]
Libertarian Filmmaker Training & Grants
The following is a list of libertarian filmmaker support opportunities in the form of training and grants. It includes assistance in filmmaking, screenwriting, video production, etc. Moving Picture Institute | Ongoing Opportunities Have you seen a libertarian film lately? Somewhere along the way, the Moving Picture Institute (MPI) may have had a hand in it. MPI supports … [Read more...]