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Essay: As American democracy is in peril, Brazilian films offer perspective  Los Angeles Times

“The Alabama Solution”: Oscar-Nominated Film Uses Prisoner Cellphones to Show U.S.’s Deadliest Prisons  Democracy Now!

The 25 Best Election Movies of All Time, from ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ to ‘State of the Union’  IndieWire

10 movies to inspire your vote  Atlanta Civic Circle

Kirsten Dunst's movie ‘Civil War' shows how delicate the US democracy really could be  NBC New York

One Battle After Another: this insane movie about leftwing radicals and rightwing institutions is a powerful exploration of US today  The Conversation

‘Civil War’ sends a message that’s more dangerous than the violence it depicts onscreen  CNN

‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy  The Guardian

Rob Reiner warns of ‘full-on autocracy’ under Trump  The Hill

Documentarian Connie Field talks harnessing hope and ‘Democracy Noir’ | Film & Television  Daily Cal

Civics summer camp  Show Me Mizzou

6 in 10 Americans say U.S. democracy is in crisis as the 'Big Lie' takes root  NPR

New “All the Walls Came Down” Film Shows CA Housing Crisis as Real Estate “Vultures” Buy Up Land  Democracy Now!

Visions of America: 25 films to help understand the US today  The Guardian

“Orwell: 2+2=5”: Raoul Peck & Alex Gibney on New Documentary, Authoritarianism, Trump & More  Democracy Now!

“Green Border”: Agnieszka Holland’s New Film Shows “Impossible Choices” Facing Refugees in Europe  Democracy Now!

“Unseen”: Documentary Aims to Amplify Undocumented & Disabled Voices  Democracy Now!

“The Secret Agent”: Kleber Mendonça Filho on His Oscar-Nominated Film & Brazil’s Military Dictatorship  Democracy Now!

Documentary Film “Bad Faith” Traces Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy  Loyola Marymount University

How to strengthen democracy  Stanford Report

Movie Review: A Czech HOA from hell shows us a “democracy” of “Owners (Vlastníci)”  rogersmovienation.com

Hip-Hop Star Macklemore on New Film “The Encampments” & Why He Speaks Out Against Israel’s War on Gaza  Democracy Now!

12 Political Thrillers Fueled by Power, Secrets, and Suspense  Netflix

“From Ground Zero”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Features Stories from Palestinian Filmmakers in Gaza  Democracy Now!

"Meet John Doe" Shows the Darkness of American Democracy  JSTOR Daily

Apocalypse in the Tropics review – how Brazilian politics succumbed to rightwing fundamentalism  The Guardian

The 20 Best Political Movies  Rolling Stone

“Io Capitano”: Oscar-Nominated Film Dramatizes Perilous Migrant Journey from West Africa to Europe  Democracy Now!