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The Patriot (2000) w/ Graeme Pente | Ep. 61
Van and Lyle are joined by historian Graeme Pente to revisit Roland Emmerich’s The Patriot, a Revolutionary War epic that filters eighteenth-century…
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1:11:32
Army of Shadows (1969) w/ Matthew Ellis | Ep. 60
Van and Lyle are joined by film historian Matthew Ellis to revisit Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows, a spare, rain-soaked chronicle of the French…
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1:15:11
Demolition Man (1993) w/ Daniel Bessner | Ep. 59
Van and Lyle are joined by historian and American Prestige co-host Danny Bessner to revisit Marco Brambilla’s Demolition Man, a silly 1993 action movie…
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46:04
Three Days of the Condor (1975) w/ Matt Duss | Ep. 58
Van and Lyle are joined by returning guest Matt Duss—former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders and current executive vice president at the…
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1:01:27
The Military is Trapped Between Fascism and Civil War | Ep. 57
Do US troops have a threshold for the kind of unlawful order they’re unwilling to follow?
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26:07
PatLabor 2: The Movie (1993) w/ Kevin Fox | Ep. 56
We’re joined by filmmaker and returning guest Kevin Fox to discuss Mamoru Oshii’s Patlabor 2, a film that masquerades as a techno-thriller before…
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1:41:31
Starship Troopers (1997) w/ Andrew Facini and Sam Ratner | Ep. 55
We’re joined by returning guests Sam Ratner (Win Without War) and Andrew Facini (Council on Strategic Risks) to revisit Paul Verhoeven’s Starship…
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1:13:07
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A show about war movies, with an anti-imperialist twist. Hosted by Van Jackson and Lyle Jeremy Rubin—military vets, antiwar advocates, film junkies.
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