A film that perfectly encapsulates the terror and absurdity of the threat of nuclear war.

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The first documentary we’ve tackled in over seven years of doing the show, but we felt it was too important to skip.

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A bit trivial compared to what we normally cover, but gives us an opportunity to discuss American culture and the history of rock ‘n’ roll.

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Spike Lee’s biopic of Malcolm X attempts to include Malcolm entire life, short as it was.

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A wonderful form of biopic that chooses one event to focus in Truman Capote’s life as opposed to giving us his full biography. That event is the murder of the [ … ]

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A few Hollywood changes, but based on the true story of Homer Hickam and his friends who built their own rockets as teenagers in the late 1950s in West Virginia.

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Mostly fictional, but Bloody Christmas is very much based on a real event. And it’s just a great movie!

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This Korean War movie features two real-life pilots on a mission in the early days of the conflict.

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Interesting look at one of the primary writers affected by the Blacklist in Hollywood during the second Red Scare.

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Not the strongest version of this story we could have gotten, but Chadwick Boseman does a great job as Jackie Robinson.

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