James Stewart -- born May 20, 1908 -- made many films over his long acting career. Included among these are seven films of interest to libertarians, likely the record to date for any individual actor, and a record not just in quantity but in depth of libertarian content: two of his films are ranked among the Top 25 Libertarian Films ever made. His films touch upon multiple … [Read more...]

Film director Amanda Milius has just been vindicated. In 2020, Milius released The Plot Against the President, a documentary that alleged Hillary Clinton's campaign had colluded with intelligence agencies to falsely smear the Trump administration with links to Russia. The political left treated the film's narrative as a right-wing conspiracy theory of the lowest order. … [Read more...]

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...]

Earth Day is an annual celebration to support "environmental protection" -- no, not primarily to promote good things like clean air and clean water, but to fight global warming, excuse me, climate change, via massive government regulation, control, and spend on a world scale. All this is justified by claims that doom is nearly upon us and can only be averted by radical change … [Read more...]

Thirty years ago today, a religious commune in Waco, Texas was raided by FBI and BATF, resulting in the holocaust of 76 people including children, burnt alive. The official story was initially that the tragedy was a mass suicide, that authorities never fired a shot and never set fire to their compound. That became -- through constant repetition -- the narrative that everyone … [Read more...]

Leslie Howard -- born April 3rd, 1893 -- is probably best-known to audiences for his memorable role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind. But he also chose to star in, and in some cases produced and directed, several early films of libertarian interest. Two of these films were important in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany and to save its victims. Howard's first … [Read more...]

Walter Williams was born on March 31st, 1936. He was an influential libertarian economist, a beloved professor at George Mason University, and a prolific and often witty writer. Free to Choose Media released a documentary about him in 2014, entitled Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools; it's available free online. He joined Milton Friedman in the PBS series Free to … [Read more...]

Bruce Willis -- born March 19th, 1955 -- started out as a minor off-Broadway actor but eventually landed the lead in Die Hard, launching his now legendary action-hero career. He seemed attracted to the role of individualist hero, and it was a role he took up in several films of libertarian interest. Willis is probably best known for his role as John McClane, a classic … [Read more...]

March 8th is International Women's Day, highlighting the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Listed below are ten women who fought for human freedom -- some with words, some with pistols, and some with nothing more than raw courage -- but all pivotal in their own ways. Why not learn about them through film? Suggestions below. Ayn Rand Decades … [Read more...]