I also recommend “The Mortal Storm”, where students burn books and reject their professor for not teaching them “facts” in accord with nazi doctrine.
(Couldn’t happen in the US, of course, where universities are never influenced by political doctrines...)
True story..the film...other peoples lives
I just re-watched “The Mortal Storm” a couple weeks ago (I have it on my home video server). It’s a great movie and shows how rapidly society can change. It’s especially close to home for me because my great-grandparents lived through that time in Germany. I wish they had written about it. My grandparents got out of Germany in 1927 with all the rising communist, socialist, Freikorps, and Nazi unrest.
Thanks for the recommendation for “The Seventh Cross.” It’s not available for streaming on Netflix or Amazon Prime and it isn’t in our local library DVD collection, so I bought a copy on eBay for $10.
it’s still very amazing that, before the Internet, I would never have found out about either of those movies and never would have been able to watch them. I’m sure neither was stocked by the local Blockbuster store. Now, with a few clicks inside a couple of minutes, I can find it for streaming, borrowing, or purchase. Incredible times we live in.
The students reject their professor...but then it gets a LOT worse for the professor when the Party comes for him.