Ten Films for a Labor Day Under New Management
Alex Demyanenko Capital and Main While the Trump administration attacks workers’ rights, here are some of the most influential films about labor from the last 50 years. In the climactic…
‘Cover-Up’: The Complicity Of The Press In US Violence
“Cover-Up,” directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, takes Hersh’s work over the last half century and examines what Poitras describes as the “long history of cycles of impunity, of…
Friedrich Nietzsche Asks George Clooney, ‘Jay Kelly,’ and Us: What is an Actor?
At the time I laughed but really didn’t get it. Now I do. I really do.
Trump Says Foreign Movies Are “Propaganda,” Orders 100 Percent Tariff
By Sharon Zhang / Truthout President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that his administration is implementing a 100 percent tariff on all films produced in foreign countries, denouncing them as…
‘From Ground Zero’: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Features Stories from Palestinian Filmmakers in Gaza
“In spite of all what happened, we were trying to search for hope,” says filmmaker Rashid Masharawi.
Chris Hedges: Dear Child — Full Short Film
By Chris Hedges and Devin Peters / Dear Child Written as a letter to a child in Gaza, this film takes the audience on a haunting & realistic journey through…
Chris Hedges: Dear Child
Dear Child, written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Chris Hedges takes the viewer on an uncompromising journey into the life of a child from Gaza living under Israeli…
The Oppenheimer Package: The Story of Soviet Spy Ted Hall, and Daniel Ellsberg on the Dangers of Nuclear War
Editor’s Note: In light of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” winning Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards, ScheerPost has put together a package on some of the most important interviews on…
Zone of Interest Director Jonathan Glazer Condemns the Dehumanization of the Gaza Occupation in Oscar’s Acceptance Speech
A transcript of Glazer’s speech: “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s shaped all of our past and present. Right now we stand here as men who…
The Ghosts of the Worldwide Surveillance Apparatus Show Their Hand
Phantom Parrot, a British documentary now screening in the US, sheds light on the Orwellian technologies being used across borders to repress activists, journalists, and others.
Critics Picked Up on Oppenheimer’s All-Too-Timely Warning on Nuclear War
Oppenheimer can provide the opening of a window that can help new generations of people learn about nuclear weapons.
‘A Compassionate Spy’ Opens Today
The film opens at The Laemmle Royal in LA August 4.