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1. The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
As fresh today as it was then, Rand's provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction-that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress... More »
2. The Wall
Studio album by Pink Floyd
The film is best known for its imagery of mental isolation, drug use, war, fascism, dark or disturbing surreal animated sequences More »
3. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Film by Pier Paolo Pasolini
In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to one hundred and twenty days of physical, mental and sexual torture. More »
4. The Wave (2008)
Film by Dennis Gansel
A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. More »
5. Mississippi Burning (1988)
Film by Alan Parker
Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists. More »
6. V for Vendetta (2005)
Film by James McTeigue
In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman. More »
7. American History X (1998)
Film by Tony Kaye
A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did. More »
8. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Film by Guillermo del Toro
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. More »
9. The White Ribbon (2009)
Film by Michael Haneke
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. More »
10. The Believer (2001)
Film by Henry Bean
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter. More »
11. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter. More »
12. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. More »
13. 1984
by George Orwell
the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world More »
14. The Prague Cemetery
by Umberto Eco
Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres.More »
16. Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
After reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, three vanity publisher employees invent their own conspiracy for fun. They call this satirical intellectual game "The Plan" More »