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Cradle will rock
A kaleidoscopic look at the extraordinary events of 1930s America, from high society to life on the streets in Depression-era New York City
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Fahrenheit 451
In a future where reading is a crime, a fireman whose job is to burn books begins to question the law
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Good Night and Good Luck
Takes place in the 1950's America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts'.
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The Handmaid's tale
In a dystopic future where a religion-based autocracy rules the country, women are second class citizens and after attempting to escape, June is sentenced to be a handmaid whose role is to bear children for childless government officials
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Howl
Dramatizes the events leading up to accusations of obscenity against Allen Ginsberg and his poem "Howl," and the subsequent trial where he had to defend his most famous work
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Inherit the wind
William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow clash over a teacher's right to teach evolution in the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial."
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Library war
Follows special agents of libraries called book soldiers who stand against the government's abuse of power when it tries to suppress information it finds undesirable
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Manuscripts don't burn
Drawing from the true story of the Iranian government's attempted 1995 murder of several prominent writers and intellectuals, Rasoulof imagines a repressive regime so pervasive that even the morally righteous are subsumed or cast aside.
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1984
The story of forbidden love and eventual betrayal set in the government controlled world of the "future"--1984
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Trumbo
Explores screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses after he and other Hollywood figures were blacklisted for their political beliefs during the 1940s
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