The Eyes Have It

Cheryl Meeker's show about the effects of nuclear dust requires more than passive viewing.

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W.

Oliver Stone’s W., which is as much edited as it is directed, working from a script by Stone buddy Stanley Weiser, has a patchwork…

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W.

Oliver Stone’s W., which is as much edited as it is directed, working from a script by Stone buddy Stanley Weiser, has a patchwork…

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Resistance Is Fertile

They came carrying signs and babies. Eighty-year-olds in sweat suits and 28-year-olds in business suits, staging die-ins and blowing tubas and, sometimes, weeping. On…

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Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Rhetoric

Bob Dylan's “John Brown” is one of the most moving antiwar songs recorded. The track avoids sloganeering, resonating an anti–Vietnam War sentiment with a…

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Hearts and Minds

Nick Broomfield, known for his unseemly documentary portraits of Aileen Wuornos, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love, brings a surprising dose of compassion to his…

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Hearts and Minds

Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

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Party Crashers 08

Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

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Absurdistan

The next wave of post-9/11 political films trades sobriety for satire.

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Body of War

Co-directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue—yes, that Phil Donahue—Body of War is neither the most cinematic nor the most elegantly crafted of recent…

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