Turner Classic Movies (TCM) aired a day of films with explicitly anti-fascist and anti-Nazi themes, leading to speculation about a connection to the Trump administration. The programming included classic films such as 'Confessions of a Nazi Spy,' 'The Great Dictator,' and 'The Seventh Cross.' TCM maintains that the programming was part of a planned themed film night and had no political intent.
Turner Classic Movies, a vintage film channel, filled its schedule with films featuring explicitly anti-fascist and anti- Nazi themes one day afterThat was followed by the World War II-era films “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” and “The Mortal Storm,” a 19401941 black comedy, “The Great Dictator,” an anti-fascist spoof that, along with his capitalism-critical movie “Modern Times,” was used as evidence of the silent film star’s communist sympathies during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and early ’50s.
Chaplin, a British citizen, was essentially exiled from the U.S. in 1952 when he was denied reentry to America after a trip to Europe during the height of the McCarthy era.“The Seventh Cross,” starring Spencer Tracy, follows a prisoner after his escape from a German concentration camp. The Errol Flynn picture “The Edge of Darkness” is about one Norwegian village’s fight to resist the Nazis.
Though TCM said the slate of Tuesday programming was not taking aim at Trump, the network’s media mogul namesake,The businessman has backed health care reform and pushed politicians to confront the climate crisis. Though he has never explicitly spoken out against Trump, he did endorse former Secretary of StateMany of Turner’s billionaire brethren appear to be welcoming the start of a second Trump era with open arms.The next four years will change America forever.
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