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You think Nazism is a clear and present danger. Thanks for the insight.

Perhaps you can do us a favor and provide a list of anti-communist films and anti-Jihadist films. Then we can see which are available on Net-Flix. If any were shown at “a theatre near you” or on TV, they didn’t receive much advertising.

I liked “The Path to 9/11.” Too bad it was shown once and locked away. Contrary to your assertions, it was not about Nazi terrorists. I suppose you could say it all stems from original sin. Ah yes, the big picture. But sometimes smaller pictures are useful. For example, you wouldn’t want to bomb the wrong target.

You think Nazism is a clear and present danger. Thanks for the insight.

I never said that.

I suppose you could say it all stems from original sin.

I didn't say that either.

Perhaps you should brush up on your reading comprehension.

You You have raised a question that has bothered me for a long time. Back in the 1960's, while the US was fighting a Cold War with the East Bloc as well as a hot war in Vietnam, I began to wonder why Hollywood was issuing so many films about World War II and so few about the contemporary conflicts. Sure, "The Longest Day," "Operation Crossbow," and "The Great Escape" were good movies, but the Third Reich was defunct, and Germany was now our NATO ally. .

Movies which did address the Cold War, such as "Fail Safe," "The Bedford Incident," "Dr. Strangelove," and "Ice Station Zebra" tended to portray the threat of nuclear annihilation as being far worse than the threat of Communism. Even spy films seemed to shy away from the East-West conflict as the decade wore on. By the end of the 1960’s, for example, James Bond was matching wits with gangsters instead of the KGB.

One notable exception to this trend was “Dr. Zhivago,” which provided an unfavorable portrayal of Soviet Communists. This film, which I saw in Hollywood in August of 1966, soon after it opened, went a long way toward satisfying my desire at the time to see a film that would take on the villains of the day.

I am hoping that anti-Communist literary classics, such as Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, Witness by Whittaker Chambers, and Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons will some day be made into movies.

I didn’t even understand the film as simply about Nazism, but to me it was about free speech. I know I am way off base here, but to my mind, I kept thinking of the Fairness Doctrine while viewing the film. I felt the film was painting a much broader picture than simply talking about the Third Reich as it was about freedom and dignity of life.
The reason I joined Netflix, is because there are wonderful films like this one, that are a challenge to get at the local Blockbuster. I think there are a lot of lessons and inspirations in this film not simply thinking it is a anti-Nazi film.
Hollywood glorifies communists just waiting for Castro’s film to arrive after he is gone. I am sure it will be another one like that idiotic Motorcycle Diaries. People are so stupid, they now believe he is some kind of folk hero