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Land and Freedom: A young English communist travels to Spain and joins an anarchist militia to fight against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War. This film is very interesting and well made, and I think it gives a really fair picture of the anarchist movement in Spain. Especially the tensions between the anarchists and the Stalinists (which ultimately led to Franco’s victory) play a major part in the story.

SLC Punk: Two punks and self-labeled anarchists in Salt Lake City spend their days beating up rednecks, belittling “posers” and doing drugs. You quickly realize they’re just posers themselves and have no clue about either Punk or Anarchism, but the movie is still fun to watch because it doesn’t take itself too seriously. It still misses the point for the most part though, especially Anarchy is completely misrepresented. But it also made me think about a lot of stuff that’s wrong with most of the Punk “movement”, and I certainly have to give it credit for that…