The following films were chosen by Boston Mobilization interns and staff as nominees for the most essential works for activists or for that matter, any thoughtful person. Please support your local libraries and independent bookstores.

Claudia
Killing Us Softly
Documentary on the way media representations of womyn lead to eating disorders.

Sam
Paradise Now (2004)
Two best friends are called on to be suicide bombers for the Palestinian cause.

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Documentary style film chronicles the Algerian resistance to their French colonizers.

Melissa
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Al Gore campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
In theaters now!

Motorcycle Diaries
The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator

Syriana (2005)
A politically-charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and affected by it.