Every voter in every democracy should watch Ken Burn’s WWII documentary The War.
90% of the time, when someone else has told me “This book should be required reading” or “This film should be required viewing,” it’s turned out to be a didactic bore.
I’m no more inclined to make other people watch my pet films or read my favored books than I am to have thers imposed on me.
ASK me one on one for a great movie to see or book to read, and I’ll be happy to talk your ear off. But I’ll never proclaim EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE TO READ THIS, no matter how much I may love it.
But Pacino told everyone that nothing is worse than being a snitch- in effect, he was on the side of the rich, entitled punks who were O’Donell’s so-called friends.
I can’t think of any required viewing. But back when people could read, I wanted every young person of military age to read John Keegan’s The Face of Battle, a historian’s attempt to convey the reality of combat, as a counterweight to jingoistic claptrap and fantasies of glory.
The documentary film Fed Up.
That’s not the entire message. The rich punks were being the snitches, and then abandoning O’Donell. My kids had to learn that real friends don’t do that.
Gwynne Dyer’s documentary series, “War,” isn’t as good as reading Keegan, and is a bit dated, but does what I think you’re trying to do. Alternately, they could just watch, “Threads.”
I understand that Generation Kill also does that. I really liked Restrepo.
I’d recommend watching Rashomon for anyone going into the law or history.