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I'm sure there's lots of examples, but in the documentary world, The Thin Blue Line was about a man wrongfully accused of murder on death row, who was retried a
by burkaman 12y ago
I'm sure there's lots of examples, but in the documentary world, The Thin Blue Line was about a man wrongfully accused of murder on death row, who was retried and released as a direct result of the movie.
Also, I think Triumph of the Will played a huge part in helping Hitler come to power. And in the US, The Birth of a Nation helped the KKK explode in popularity. These aren't particularly uplifting examples, but I think it's clear that a popular movie can have a huge effect on the political landscape.
- jamestnz 12y agoSimilarly (but less directly), the sympathetic treatment given in the 2011 Richard Linklater film "Bernie" is believed by some to have been instrumental in the release of a convicted murderer from his life sentence. The film is great, incidentally. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Tiede http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Tiede http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_(2011_film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_(2011_film)
- solarexplorer 12y ago"Triumph des Willens" was released in 1935, two years after the Nazis grabbed power.
- dragonwriter 12y agoSo, what, you don't believe in retrocausality?
- burkaman 12y agoYeah my bad, I remembered wrong. Maybe it helped cement his power? We definitely talked about this in some history class I took, but I can't find any good references online, so maybe that's a bad example.