# Films Hub Index for `Works/Films/` — feature films, documentaries, and documentary series as authored artifacts. **Moving image of any length or distribution belongs here**; there is no separate documentary folder. | Film | Year | Why it is here | |---|---|---| | [[Birth of a Nation]] | 1915 | The founding text of Lost Cause cinema; revived the Klan | | [[Glory (film)]] | 1989 | The mass-audience answer to it, 74 years later | | [[Red Dawn]] | 1984 | Cold War invasion fantasy; durable right-wing reference text | | [[Thank You for Smoking]] | 2005 | Satire of the lobbying and PR machine | | [[2000 Mules]] | 2022 | Election-fraud claim in documentary form | | [[Plandemic]] | 2020 | Pandemic disinformation as viral video | | [[Thrive (film)]] | 2011 | Conspiracy-spirituality crossover | | [[What Is a Woman]] | 2022 | Anti-trans advocacy in documentary form | | [[American Conspiracy - The Octopus Murders]] | 2024 | Documentary series on the Casolaro and PROMIS story | ## The through-line The two ends of this shelf are the argument. [[Birth of a Nation]] did direct political work — it revived a terrorist organization — and [[Glory (film)]] is the closest thing to a mass-market rebuttal, which still had to route itself through a white protagonist to get made. Most of what sits between them is **claim-making in documentary costume**: the form borrows documentary's authority while doing advocacy's work. ## Neighbours - [[Plays Hub]] · [[Audio Hub]] · [[Songs Hub]] — the other performance and recorded media - [[Contested Symbols Hub]] — where visual culture becomes a political object - [[Works Hub]] — the master index