The following selection of films, all but one available on DVD, are a useful supplement to conventional academic readings and texts. By no means an exhaustive list, they are organised thematically and provide important insights into several themes and issues in the unit.

Scott Burchill

The power of documentary film

Shoah (doc)

The Sorrow and the Pity (doc)

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (doc)

Hearts and Minds (doc)

No End in Sight (doc)

The power of the secret state

Edge of Darkness (TV)

The Trial (Orson Welles version)

Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy (TV)

Smiley’s People (TV)

The Road to Guantanamo

Breach

Resisting the state and anti-colonialism

The Battle of Algiers

Lumumba

The Quiet American

Paradise Now

Army of Shadows

The Tunnel

Media power, argument and public opinion

Citizen Kane

Wag the Dog

Manufacturing Consent (doc)

Anti-war

Dr Stangelove

Apocalypse Now Redux

Full Metal Jacket

Platoon

Saving Private Ryan

The Dear Hunter

The Thin Red Line

Welcome to Sarajevo

Joyeux Noël

UN

No Man’s Land

Shake Hands With The Devil

The corruption of power

A Man For All Seasons

Bulworth

Danton

Lord of the Flies

Burnt By The Sun

The Crucible

Capitalism

Wages of Fear

Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Room

The Corporation

The Formula

Personal politics

Z

The Conformist

The Leopard

Men With Guns

Mr Klein

Society & Class

If

1900

The Leopard

Grapes of Wrath