[Marxism] Films [was: The McKinney debate and a film query]

[Joaquin Bustelo]

Shawn writes: "Finally, a totally unrelated question that I've meant to pose
to this list for some time:  if you were teaching a 2 year high-school
course examining the development and evolution of the capitalist world
system from 1400 to the present, which films would you show?"

Little Big Man. 

Georgia's Friends. 

The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Star Trek: Amok Time [minus the final scene, with Spock back on the
Enterprise]

Brazil

The Monty Python Parrot Sketch

Amadeus

But mostly, I'd show them Babylon 5, because it is great science fiction,
but more to the point because I don't think history is something that can be
taught: it has to be learned. So you might as well keep the students
entertained and thinking pending their realizing that.

Joaquín

PS: And call me a maudlin and sentimental fool, but I love the Disneyfied
Parent Trap, with Lindsay Lohan. No, it isn't "real history," but neither is
"real history" really real. Or history, for that matter.