Now, now, now, everyone knows that Kuhle Wampe is the greatest propaganda film of all time.  (Of course, I've only seen the horribly slashed and duped and chronologically re-ordered (Why?) version of Colonel Blimp that's available on commercial VHS here in the U.S.  I think the Criterion DVD should be out now, and of course I'm looking for it.)

Maybe somebody should start a discussion about politics in the cinema on one of these boards.  It might be interesting.  There's got to be a lot to say about the political aspects of an art whose first acknowledged masterpiece is a glorified recruitment film for the KKK and whose greatest all-time blockbuster is a paean to Old South slavery and aristocracy.  Needless to say, it's going to take a lot more than the occasional Godard or Fassbinder or Oshima to expiate the sins of our cinematic forebears. 