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The Cineaste Editors' Votes For the Ten Best Political Films, 1967-2007 (In order of preference, unless otherwise indicated)

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Paul Arthur, Associate
The Rise of Louis XIV (1967)
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's "Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene" (1973)
In the Year of the Pig (1968)
The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
Leben BRD (1990)
Grin without a Cat (1977)
Jeanne Dielman (1976)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
Ceddo (1977)
Profit, and Nothing But! (2001)
The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
The Battle of Chile (1975-1979)
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Journey (1987)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Robert Cashill, Associate
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
Z (1969)
The Battle of Chile (1975-1979)
Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Salvador (1986)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Land and Freedom (1995)
Loose Change (2006)
Burn! (1969)
The Conversation (1974)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
Schindler's List (1993)
Blow Out (1981)
Under Fire (1983)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Over the Edge (1979)
A Fistful of Dynamite (1972)
RoboCop (1987)

Gary Crowdus, Editor-in-Chief
(No order specified)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Corporation (2003)
JFK (1991)
Why We Fight (2005)
Man of Marble (1977)
Missing (1982)
Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
Z (1969)
The Battle of Chile (1975-1979)

Thomas Doherty, Associate
Gimme Shelter (1970)
Chinatown (1974)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
The Lives of Others (2006)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
All the Presidents Men (1976)
The Fog of War (2003)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
United 93 (2006)
Roger & Me (1989)

Dan Georgakas, Consulting
(No order specified)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
Missing (1982)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
The Traveling Players (1975)
Godfather II (1974)
Z (1969)
Whispering Waters (1992)
Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
Battle of Chile (1975-1979)
Wall Street (1987)

Memories of Underdevelopment

Roy Grundmann, Associate
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Hour of the Furnaces, Part 1 (1968)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Hotel Terminus (1988)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Liberators Take Liberties (1992)
In the Year of the Pig (1968)
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (2004)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Rahul Hamid, Assistant
(No order specified)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Spider's Stratagem (1970)
Battle of Chile (1975-1979)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Underground (1995)
The Power of Nightmares (2004)
Xala (1975)
Platoon (1986)
2 or 3 things I Know About Her (1967)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

John Hill, Associate
The Traveling Players (1975)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
Camp de Thiaroye (1987)
Blood of the Condor (1969)
Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
The Red and the White (1967)
Lone Star (1996)
Land and Freedom (1995)
City of Sadness (1989)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1973)
Divine Intervention ( 2002)
Syriana (2005)
One Way or Another (1977)
Death by Hanging (1968)
The Mattei Affair (1972)
Antonio das Mortes (1969)
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
Tout va bien (1972)
State of Siege (1973)

Andy Horton, Associate
Osama (2003)
The Day I Became a Woman (2001)
Children of Men (2006)
The Lives of Others (2006)
Sicko (2007)
No Man's Land (2001)
Ulysses' Gaze (1997)
Once Were Warriors (1994)
Z (1969)
Iraq for Sale (2006)

Cindy Lucia, Editor
Night and Fog (1955)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
A Question of Silence (1982)
No End in Sight (2007)
The Rise of Louis XIV (1967)
The Leopard (1963)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1973)
The Conformist (1970)
Taxi to the Darkside (2007)
Welfare (1975)
Turtles Can Fly (2004)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
Life and Debt (2001)
Missing (1982)
Bamboozled (2000)
Election (1999)

Battle of Algiers

Adrian Martin, Associate
Land of the Dead (2005)
Capitalism: Child Labor (2006)
Rosetta (1998)
Our Nazi (1984)
Mandingo (1975)
Fortini/Cani (1976)
Life and Nothing But (1989)
Notre Musique (2004)
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Strongman Ferdinand (1976)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Two Laws (1981)
In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
The Comedy of Work (1987)
The Wind Will Carry Us (2000)
Alexandria-New York (2004)
Giu la testa (1972)
La Vie Nouvelle (2003)
The Tracker (2002)

Joe Margolis, Assistant
Man of Marble (1979)
Camera Buff (1979)
Missing (1982)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
Lamerica (1994)
Brazil (1985)
Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)

Louis Menashe, Associate
Angi Vera (1979)
Man of Marble (1979)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
Repentance (1984)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
12:08 East of Bucharest (2007)
Danton (1983)
The Fog of War (2003)
Wall Street (1987)
Medium Cool (1969)

Martha P. Nochimson, Associate
(No order specified)
Notre Musique (2004)
The President's Last Bang (2005)
Election 2 (2006)
Moolaade (2004)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Brazil (1985)
La Haine (1995)
Sicko (2007)
The Conformist (1970)
Bamboozled (2000)
Earth (1998)
Water (2005)
Lamerica (1994)
The Icicle Thief (1989)

Richard Porton
(No order specified)
Grin Without a Cat (1977)
Xala (1975)
Land in Anguish (1967)
Close-Up (1990)
Tout va bien (1972)
WR : Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Red Desert (1964)
Medium Cool (1969)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
Yol (1982)
Route 181 (2004)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
La Commune (2000)
Kes (1969)
Camera Buff (1979)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1973)
One Man's War (1982)
Reason, Debate, and a Story (1974)
Bulworth (1998)
Red Psalm (1972)

Man of Marble

Leonard Quart, Associate
(No order specified)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1973)
Battle of Algiers (1967)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Man of Marble (1979)
Angi Vera (1979)
Jonah Who will be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
Marianne and Juliane (1981)
WR:Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Nashville (1975)
Godfather 2 (1974)
High Hopes (1988)
Kes (1969)
Lamerica (1994)

Jared Rapfogel, Associate
The Rise of Louis XIV (1967)
Ceddo (1977)
Edvard Munch (1974)
Antonio das Mortes (1969)
Welfare (1975)
The Red and the White (1967)
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Platform (2000)
Reed: Insurgent Mexico (1973)
Moment of Innocence (1996)
The Mattei Affair (1972)
La Commune (2000)
Death by Hanging (1968)
Les Carabiniers (1963)
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)
Grin Without a Cat (1977)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
These are the Damned (1963)
Fall of Otrar (1991)

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Associate
The Corporation (2003)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
The World (2004)
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
Mandingo (1975)
Red Psalm (1971)
Origins of a Meal (1978)
Field Diary (1983)
Ishtar (1987)
In the Year of the Pig (1968)
Dead Man (1995)
The Circle (2001)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)

Robert Sklar, Associate
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1973)
A City of Sadness (1989)
The Battle of Chile (1975-1979)
Germany in Autumn (1978)
Missing (1982)
Les Ordres (1974)
Marianne and Juliane (1981)
The Conformist (1970)
The Blue Kite (1993)
Redupers: The All-Round Reduced Personality (1978)
Faat Kine (2000)
La Promesse (1996)
Blood of the Condor (1969)
Shoah (1985)
Born in Flames (1983)
The Official Story (1985)
Land and Freedom (1995)

Deborah Young, Associate
(No order specified)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
Rothschild's Violin (1996)
The Conformist (1970)
The Official Story (1985)

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