Films on White Supremacy

Before I even begin this thread, I want to state FOR THE RECORD that NO I am NOT a white supremist. Not one, single, iota of supremacy is in me. So don't read this, and then post that you think I'm some kind of Nazi, because I've just stated that I'm not.

Ok. Now that that's all out of the way, has anyone seen any films depicting White Power? As both a sociologist and someone who has lived their whole life in a very multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-religious city, I find racism fascinating. Terrifying, mystifying... and fascinating. As such, I've started a sort of "collection" of films depicting White Power, racial genocide... of course, the Halocaust... and I'm wondering if anyone else finds these interesting, or if someone can recommend anything? I've seen Schindler's List (not SO much about the Halocaust, but it does have some parts), Swing Kids, Apt Pupil, American History X, White Lies, and The Believer. These movies were amazing. Basically, I watch these movies to try to understand something that's never made sense to me. The power of film, among other things, is that it can show us what we don't want to see, or expose us to something new and different.

Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone had any insights or suggestions...

 

I think its the violence i don't understand...

 

I agree that Apt Pupil is a really good movie.

The Wall is also a good example.

 

Missippi Burning, Remember the Titans, Amistad, Malcolm X, Rosewood, and I dont recall the name, but it starred Cuba Gooding Jr. as a navy diver in the forties.

 

'The Birth Of A Nation' (1915), the first film on white supremacy and the ku klux clan.

 

American History X

 

i was just looking at info on that..http://www.filmsite.org/birt.html

 

Super Girl,


'A Rabbit Proof Fence'.

This film intensely describes the struggle of innocent children against the harsh tragedy of our Gothic Culture's schizophrenic alienation.

And how, in our collective cultural sickness, we must compulsively force the whole world to conform to our war against nature and our war against freedom.

Kenneth Braughnan(sp) does a sensitive performance as the typical man of Western Gothic Culture who believes without question that he is doing the right thing for these children of the indigenous world.

 

This is an excellent movie.

Another movie you might want to check out is Romper Stomper if you already haven't.

 

bamboozled. It's not about white supremacy, but racism in general. It's a spike lee film(if that counts for anything)

 

Wow everyone, thanks for the imput! I've made a list of all the ones mentioned that I haven't scene, and I'm going to do my best to find and watch them. Can't wait!

 

ROMPER STOMPER not great, but, it has its moments...

 

American History X is my favorite of them. Norton does an amazing job as a reformed White Power advocate. I still maintain he should have won an oscar for that performance.

Apt Pupil is another amazing film. My favorite Stephen King film adaptation.

Mississippi Burning is a bloody classic. One of my favorite Dafoe performances.

There are a bunch of others, but I am sleepy and cannot remember them.

 

theres a bit of white racism in forrest gump, but its not the main subject of the movie

 

So I just got back from Blockbuster, I rented Rabbit Proof Fence I'm really excited, and I'll post my thoughts later. Thanks again to everyone for imput - I made a list of everything reccommended, and I'm going to work my way through it

 

Oh yeah, O Brother Where Art Thou is another great movie with themes of white supremacy.

 

So Rabbit Proof Fence was pretty good, although I found the time a little long... but over all it was good

 

Probably my favorite movie about WW2 and the holocaust is the Pianist. That movie is so powerful, and really lets you know what it would have been like to be a jew in warsaw when the nazis took over. The director, Roman Polanski, was one of maybe 10 jews out of around 100,000 who survived, along with the main character of the story.

 

The tv mini series Holocaust -The story of the family Weiss is really good. It had James Woods Meryl Streep and Michael Moriarty. It tells the story of the Weiss(german-jew) and the Dorf family (german) Eric Dorf who is an aquiantance of the the Weiss family who joins the SS and becomes Rheinhart Heydrich's right hand man. In a moving scene the Dorf family discovers a Weiss family picture in a confiscated piano during a Christmas Eve sing along.


The Leni Rifenstahl(sp?) directed movie Triumph of the Will is another racist movie.

The movie about the first black Navy salvage diver (Cuba Gooding Jr) is called Beyond Courage.

TNT put out a really great movie in the late 90's called Honor and Courage(not sure of title) about the black Artic explorer Matthew Hensen. Robert Peary never would have made it to the North Pole if it hadn't been for Matthew Hensen. The Inuit in Greenland who had never seen a black man took one look at Hensen's dark skin and thought that he was from a lost tribe of Inuit. The Inuit took it upon themselves to teach Hensen everything that the Inuit knew about Artic survival. The Inuit's name for Hensen meant "the kind one". The Inuit name for Hensen meant "the crazy one or the mad one".
Also check out the movie about the 99th Pursuit Squadron. I think the title was The Tuskeege Airman. Lawrence Fishburn,Malcolm Jamal Warner and Cuba Gooding Jr were in it. The 99th Pursuit flew fighter escort in Italy and Sicily. They never lost one bomber to enemy fighters and were the first pilots in history to down an enemy jet fighter. (ME 262).
The Civil War movie Glory is gotta be one of the best.

 

There is a documentary made in the 1980s which I think is called Blood in the Face. It is about groups of white supremacists in the uNited Stes during the 1980s, it follows them at rallies and the like. Michael Moore is the reporter who does the interviews (this is pre Rodger and Me Michael Moore) and in his typical style just lets the interviwees just shoot themselves in the foot with their own stupidity. He gets interviews with the Klu Klux Klan and stuff, so it's fairly intense.

Yeah, it's pretty scary stuff, considering that these people are REAL.