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Reel Progress
The Center's progressive film series offers free screenings in DC and around the country followed by provocative panel discussions with leading policy experts, actors, and filmmakers.
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April 30, 2008
The past year has seen a number of films take on the far-reaching effects of the Iraq War both at home and abroad.
April 14, 2008
Phil Donahue and former soldier Tomas Young talk about their film, working with Eddie Vedder, and the media coverage of the war.
April 3, 2008
Veteran Tomas Young and filmmakers talk about their new film that follows Young after he returns from Iraq.
March 26, 2008
Director Charles Ferguson talks to Reel Progress about U.S. challenges in Iraq and his new book.
February 29, 2008
Reel Progress screened “Brick by Brick” followed by a panel featuring director Bill Kavanagh and featured activist Gene Capello.
February 20, 2008
Reel Progress charts the course of progressive ideals throughout the history of the Academy Awards.
February 15, 2008
Sundance Film Festival features CAP’s Melody Barnes, among others, to discuss the evolution of the black experience.
By Anna Soellner
February 14, 2008
“The Year My Parents Went on Vacation,” the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award, draws on "New Cinema" tradition.
By Merrill McDermott
February 12, 2008
Alex Gibney, director of “Taxi to the Dark Side,” talks with Reel Progress about his film’s distribution controversy and the Jack Bauer phenomenon.
By Anne Shoup
January 23, 2008
Five out of 12 films screened in 2007 by Reel Progress, CAP's progressive film series, have been nominated for Academy Awards. See what they are.
September 11, 2007
Joseph Cirincione discusses the new film that explores evocative questions about the war in Iraq by Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis.
By Joseph Cirincione
June 26, 2007
The new film “No End in Sight” charts the course of the United States’ failed experiment to secure Iraq.
February 27, 2007
An Inconvenient Truth’s two wins were highlighted by a commitment from the Academy to curb global warming by reducing its own ecological footprint.
October 27, 2006
Award-winning documentary raises interesting questions about religious and political freedoms.
By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
October 18, 2006
Shut Up and Sing details the criticism and abuse that the Dixie Chicks endured for exercising their right to free speech.
October 11, 2006
Fundamental rights and freedoms are being threatened by radical, new interpretations of the Constitution.
July 15, 2004
By Eric Alterman