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Movies About the Issues: Watch and Learn with Student Media

Did you miss out on one of the Office of Student Media’s 5 viewings of movies about the issues in this election? Well, don’t fear! We can bring these movies to you. If you, your class, or your floor are interested in seeing one of these five issue movies, contact Mason Votes to set up a viewing.

The movies that were shown over the course of this election season were:

Who Killed the Electric Car?
The Future of Food
Trashed
Six Days in June
Lake of Fire
Maxed Out

Contact us at [email protected] to find out more about setting up a viewing.

Preview: Six Days in June

The Office of Student Media and the Film and Video Studies program present a free screening on September 27, 7:30 p.m., in Harris Theater of Six Days in June, a film about the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and Egypt. This is part of a series of election-season films at George Mason University.

The movie’s website notes:

Written and directed by noted filmmaker Ilan Ziv (The Junction, Human Weapon), Six Days in June chronicles the events of forty years ago with a fresh historical perspective. Beginning with the buildup for the war, and the political and military maneuvering of Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Egyptian President Jamal Adel Nasser, the film takes us through the six days of fighting, the war with Jordan, the occupation of the West Bank and the unification of Jerusalem.

Featuring stunning archival footage and first-hand accounts of the war from both the Israeli and Arab soldiers who fought it, Six Days in June explores how these events became the flashpoint in history that reshaped the regional political landscape, destroyed old systems and brought new forces to the surface. Rarely in modern times has so short and localized a conflict had such profound global consequences.