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The Importance of Zero Dark Thirty

Bruce Hoffman | Posted 03.09.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Gillo Pontecorvo, CIA Bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty, Al Qaeda, Black Prison, Cia Zero Dark Thirty, Battle of Algiers, Osama Bin Laden, Gillo Pontecorvo Algiers, Zdt, Torture Zero Dark Thirty, Entertainment News
Bruce Hoffman

Zero Dark Thirty is destined to become a classic much the same as The Battle of Algiers. That these films respectively focus attention on controversial and unsavory aspects of history, raising difficult and troubling questions, is precisely their strength.

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Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left

G. Roger Denson | Posted 02.06.2013 | Arts
Read More: Elizabeth Catlett, Gillo Pontecorvo, Stanley Kubrick, Pop Art, Picasso, Komar and Melamid, Guy Debord, Political Art, The Gulag Archipelago, Jacob Lawrence, Feliks Topolski, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Minimalism, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Existentialism, Theresienstadt Camp, Felix Nussbaum, Shu Ogawara, Situationists, Holocaust Art, House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Concentration Camp Artists, Vienna-Actionists, Simone De Beauvoir, Abstract Expressionism, Political Art Timeline, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

2011-12-03-Screenshot20111203at10.01.48AM.pngMost demarcations of historical epochs are necessarily vague. Not this one.

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ReThinking The Battle of Algiers: A Movie the Pentagon, the Black Panthers and the IRA Can Agree On

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo, Afghanistan, Donald Rumsfeld, The Black Panthers, Insurgency, Counterterrorism, Iraq, Counterinsurgency, Asymmetrical Warfare, Ira, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

Why were the Black Panthers and the IRA such fans of The Battle of Algiers? Some credit the Algerian uprising with providing the blueprint for how modern insurgencies can win wars against militarily superior foes.

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