Movies: James Bell

Madrugada is a very quick look at class struggle across the globe, particularly France and Bolivia, intended to emphasise the importance of anti-imperialism in our present context...

A feature length Marxist documentary looking at 20th Century fascism, early English settler colonialism in the Americas and the prospects of a contemporary neofascism. The film focuses on the political economy of these forms, drawing on Rajani Palme ...

Collapse is a short documentary examining the crisis shocked into motion by the COVID-19 pandemic as the final breakdown of capitalist society. The film looks at a number of topics, including great power competition, the lockdown, the collapse of soc...

Bolívar Cuts the Sky is a short documentary (45 mins) looking at the coup attempt launched on 23 January by US imperialism and Juan Guaidó against the Maduro government in Venezuela. It covers at the history of Latin America between the 19th and 20th...

History is Marching is a feature length documentary analysing the rise in tensions between major powers across the globe over the course of 2018. The film follows western history from 1945 to the present day, before looking at how capitalist society ...

American Carnage is a short documentary looking at the renewal of the Black Lives Matter movement in particularly the United States following the murder of George Floyd on 25 May, 2020. It briefly discuss the background of this murder and the nature ...

"¡Socialismo o muerte! (in defence of Cuban socialism)" is a short documentary looking at the latest imperialist assault on the Cuban revolution following protests against shortages across the island in mid-July. The film offers a defence of Cuban so...

We Demand Tomorrow is a Marxist documentary looking at the material basis of communism in context of the extinction crises today faced by our species. The film explores the Marxist view of historical development and the historically limited nature of...

Freedom's Dawning is a short documentary looking at the latest escalations in the Israeli occupation of Palestine, with a focus upon the victories of the Palestinian resistance....

Camps of Dependence is a short documentary looking at the COVID-19 pandemic as an instrument of eugenics against disabled people in Britain. The film looks at the political economy of disability, the nature of dependence as a relation of repression, ...

Everything Under Heaven is a short documentary looking at the continued proliferation of antagonisms between global powers, the threat of global - even nuclear - war, and the crisis of imperialist capitalism. Building upon the analysis put forward in...

Selling Extinction is a short introduction to the capitalist notion of a "Green New Deal", the NGOs that support it and the recent Extinction Rebellion protests in London....

"Dechoukaj (uprooting): Haiti's long rebellion" is a short documentary looking at Haiti's long history of resistance to colonial and imperialist domination. The film gives a concise overview of Haiti's history - from its revolution in 1791-1804, thro...

A Dying Culture: The End of Postmodernity is a feature-length Marxist documentary looking at culture, art, postmodernism, video games, data, social media, the state and war in context of the largest crisis in capitalism's history....

An Atlantic Tide is a short documentary looking at the continued disintegration of the transatlantic alliance through the first half of 2019....