Origins of the 21st Century (2000)
Overview
Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Maurice Chevalier in "Gigi" and Godard's own "À bout de souffle."
Cast
Recommendations
The Soviet Story
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
For Sama
Night and Fog
They Shall Not Grow Old
Shoah
The Bloody Hundredth
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Korengal
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
The Age of Stupid
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
20 Days in Mariupol
The Extraordinary Voyage
The Battle of San Pietro
Virunga
Nazi Concentration Camps
The Battle of Midway
WWII From Space
Let There Be Light