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🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 97 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello. Welcome to Media Roots Radio. |
0:28.5 | This is Robbie Martin. |
0:33.0 | Just going to be me today. |
0:35.3 | And this is a special episode just for our Patreon donors. |
0:39.5 | It's not really going to be too heavy of an episode in terms of serious political commentary. |
0:45.7 | But this is what these bonus episodes are mainly for. |
0:49.1 | Something more on the fun side, not as depressing. |
0:54.5 | And I should say up front, this episode is going to be split into two parts. |
0:59.6 | So this is part one. |
1:02.1 | Keeping it a little bit more light than the typical Media Roots radio episode. |
1:07.9 | So what I wanted to do on today's episode is basically give you guys a list of films, mostly American films, that I feel have really strong and good politics in them, or have a particularly negative view of U.S. government or corporations |
1:33.1 | or oligarchs. Instead of just giving you guys a giant ranked list of like my favorite political |
1:40.0 | films ranking down from like number 40 to number one, I'm going to divide them into separate |
1:47.0 | categories. Because I think while there are a lot of great films that have politics, |
1:53.6 | you know, great politics in them and have really strong anti-government or anti-corporate messages, |
1:58.9 | a lot of them fall into different genres or different categories of movies. |
2:03.1 | Some of them are comedies. |
2:04.2 | Some of them are horror movies. |
2:05.9 | Some of them are straight up, just political thrillers or sort of autobiographical films about |
2:11.5 | real people or real events. |
2:15.6 | But I've sort of taken the time to create an individual list for all of these different |
2:21.4 | genres, an individual ranking. So I'll sort of give you the categories of what type of films |
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