Following Native Land and the end of Frontier Films, Hurwitz’s extraordinary, provocative and harrowing essay film dissects post-WWII America to find the fascism, racism and prejudice the country had fought in Europe intact on American soil. Archival images of the war’s horror meet acted scenes and footage of contemporary America, in a work of great invention in form and thought. “A strange victory, where the ideas of the loser are still active in the land of the winner.” A landmark anti-racist film, presaging the civil rights movement, acclaimed as one of the greatest documentaries of all time.
Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Introduction by Tanya Goldman and Tom Hurwitz on October 27th
