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New Episode of Fascism on Film! Rome, 1938. While the city parades for Hitler and Mussolini, and fascism is exposed through domestic devotion, acoustic hypnosis, and the distance between public spectacle and private reality. #filmsky #moviesky #specialday

New Episode of Fascism on Film Aster’s Eddington shows what happens when every belief system collapses at once—religion, politics, community, even reality itself. It’s the kind of fractured world where fascism takes root. #filmsky #moviesky #eddingtion

One Battle After Another isn’t about historical fascism—it’s about the conditions that enable it. From its white supremacist cabal, militarized “policing,” and farcical political violence, we ask what the film says about America right now. #filmsky #moviesky #onebattleafteranoter #fafscismonfilm

In this episode, we watch Hans Westmar so you don’t have to—an incoherent piece of Reich cinema that rewrites street violence, demonizes “cosmopolitan” Berlin, and ends with a Communist literally converting his raised fist into a Hitler salute. #filmsky #moviesky #fascism #fascismonfilm

New Episode of Fascism on Film The Nazis made comedies, romances, even musicals—none of them harmless. We break down Hitler’s Hollywood and the propaganda hidden in plain sight. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #reichcinema

New Episode of Fascism on Film! Beneath the smoke, the piano, and the Hollywood glow, Casablanca is anti-fascist propaganda with a heartbeat. A story about finding your conscience when the world’s on fire. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #Casablanca

New episode of Fascism on Film! Everyone Loves to Hate a Nazi: Inglourious Basterds We unpack Tarantino’s “movie about WWII movies,” from Hans Landa’s menace to Shoshanna turning cinema into a weapon—we ask what it means to cheer when the villains burn. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #tarantino

François Truffaut’s The Last Metro is set inside a Paris theater under Nazi occupation. Every character is faced with a choice of how to survive. #fascismonfilm #fascism #filmhistory #truffaut #lastmetro #filmsky #moviesky

New Episode of Fascism on Film Podcast! In The Last Metro, Truffaut shows how art survives fascism. Above the stage, they perform for the crowd; below it, they fight to stay alive. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #lastmetro

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943) In Vichy Casablanca, rounding up “the usual suspects” — liberals, refugees, anyone with the wrong papers — passes for justice. Fascism uses procedure for persecution. #fascismonfilm #casablanca #filmsky #moviesky

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943) In 1942, Rick’s “I stick my neck out for nobody” echoed America’s prewar mood — and a French collaborator approves. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #Casablanca

This Land Is Mine (Jean Renoir, 1943) A school is confronted with book burning and censorship. Will they comply or resist?

Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) schools us on the underlying ideology of fascism — the use of force. #fascismonfilm

Hans Westmar (Franz Wenzler, 1933) An Antifa group attacks a fascist in the street. But this isn’t resistance. It’s Nazi propaganda, recasting fascists as innocent victims of left-wing violence. #fascismonfilm

Black Legion (Archie Mayo, 1937) In 1937 Hollywood knew what fascism looked like. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #fascism

New Episode of the Fascism on Film Podcast! Fritz Lang’s 'The Testament of Dr. Mabuse' was the first film banned by the Nazi Joseph Goebbels, who feared its depiction of chaos, hypnosis, and control might undermine the methods of the new regime. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #fascism

The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) In the film, the demand for equality is framed as a threat. Griffith depicts Black citizens calling for rights and land as chaos and disorder, turning multiracial democracy into the villain. #FascismOnFilm #BirthOfANation #filmsky #moviesky

New Episode of Fascism on Film Podcast In this episode of the Fascism on Film Podcast, we discuss Joseph Losey’s 1976 masterpiece Mr. Klein, set in Nazi-occupied France. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky

This episode of the Fascism on Film podcast focuses on the first movie we recommend as a primer on fascism: The Mortal Storm Released in 1940, the film is an effective drama and an antifascist narrative that effectively highlights fascism's central tenets and their impact. #filmsky #moviesky

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943) No matter where you are, the usual suspects list always seems to start with the same people. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #Casablanca

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933) “This film was made as an allegory to show Hitler’s processes of terrorism. Slogans and doctrines of the Third Reich have been put into the mouths of criminals in the film.” Fritz Lang #fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky

New Episode of the Fascism on Film Podcast! Jean Renoir’s This Land Is Mine (1943) turns a Hollywood wartime drama into a story about fear, conscience, and the quiet choice to resist. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky #fascism

Hans Westmar (Franz Wenzler, 1933) This Nazi propaganda drama casts leftists as the villains. In this scene, workers rally against fascist terror, but the film frames antifascism itself as a street-level threat to order and national unity. #fascismonfilm

None Shall Escape (André de Toth, 1944) A Nazi officer, convicted of war crimes, issues an ominous warning. #fascismonfilm

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak, 1939) After years abroad, a German-American woman describes her unsettling return to Germany. #fascismonfilm #filmsky

Hitler’s Children (Edward Dmytryk, 1943) An American schoolgirl discovers a trick to fighting Nazis. #fascismonfilm

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943) Conrad Veidt as Major Strasser — the Nazi who cancels laughter to hide his fear of it. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #Casablanca

Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973) Fellini’s satirical staging of a Blackshirt rally shows townsfolk parading through the streets, chanting Fascist slogans. #fascismonfilm #fellini #filmsky

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943) In his darkest moment, Rick (Humphrey Bogart) envisions an America sleeping while the threats of fascism and heartbreak loom. #fascismonfilm

The Last Metro (François Truffaut, 1980) Sometimes seeing the hatcheck at a restaurant is enough to make you think about dining elsewhere. #fascismonfilm

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) The face of a ring opens to reveal a secret message, the Cross of Lorraine — a symbol of French resistance. #fascismonfilm

The Last Metro (François Truffaut, 1980) After 853 days in a cellar during the Nazi occupation of France, a Jewish man steps into the light. Spray-painted over German propaganda, a “V” for Victory combined with the Cross of Lorraine, the emblem of French resistance and liberation. #fascismonfilm

Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935) Throughout the film, Riefenstahl and her cameramen repeatedly return to this infinity mirror composition, which gives the impression of endless Nazis arrayed across time and space. #fascismonfilm

The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) Imagine a president coming right out and endorsing a group of masked vigilantes bent on instilling fear and enacting violence against people for the color of their skin. #fascismonfilm

Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) The film doesn't leave unanswered questions about the genocidal nature of the Federation. It answers them loudly.

To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) A Nazi offers a review of an actor's performance. The joke was controversial at the time, as the audience supplies the verb. #fascismonfilm

New Episode of Fascism on Film Podcast Starship Troopers is known as a satire of radicalized fascism. So why do we still cheer? The violence, the uniforms, the sacrifice, the glory. It’s a fascist seduction, and it works — exposing our complicity in genocide. #fascismonfilm

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak, 1939) An FBI agent (Edward G. Robinson) interrogates the leader of the German-American Bund about his true allegiance. #fascismonfilm #filmsky

Black Legion (Archie Mayo, 1937) Frank (Humphrey Bogart) explains the reason why his group of masked and hooded vigilantes is justified in beating immigrants, running people out of town, and burning down houses. They're "real Americans" #fascismonfilm #filmsky

None Shall Escape (André de Toth, 1944) A rabbi, about to be loaded onto a concentration camp train, realizes that hope alone can’t stop violence. #fascismonfilm #filmsky

New episode of Fascism on Film Podcast! Lubitsch's 1942 film 'To Be or Not to Be' expertly navigates between noir intrigue, comedy, and melodrama. It mocks the Nazi mythology of competence, depicting the whole wretched regime as a bad performance. #fascismonfilm

To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) On a set for an anti‑Nazi play, the director glares at his star, draped in a satin gown for a concentration‑camp scene. Actors rehearsing resistance while real fascists close in outside the theater doors. #filmsky #movies #tobeornottobe #fascism

The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) No spoilers, but when an anti-fascist agrees to break bread with a fascist, no good can come of it. #filmsky #antifascism #cinemasky

New Episode of Fascism on Film: Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (which means “I remember” in Romagnol dialect) recreates a year in the life of a small provincial town under Mussolini’s fascism. The result is both whimsical and damning. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #moviesky

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak, 1939) A Nazi officer explains why he believes America will be easy to conquer through propaganda. #fascismonfilm #filmsky #movies

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak, 1939) The shadow of a swastika on a world map shows how fascists will never rest on their laurels, because no amount of power is ever enough. #fascismonfilm #filmsky

Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973) In fascist ritual, fetishizing the leader’s virility turns his manhood into a symbol of national strength. #fascismonfilm

To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) In occupied Poland, the “V” blazed as a symbol of victory and defiance—an underground message that resistance could not be silenced. #fascismonfilm

Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey, 1976) A Jewish woman in occupied Paris, being bused to a concentration camp, refuses the unthinkable betrayal of local police cooperating with fascists. #fascismonfilm