A Night at the Garden

A clip without Context. Those who attended didn't knew about the future. 5/10 because of a Rare Footage.

It's very sad to know that this happened in the Madison Square Garden 80 years ago

The Oscar-nominated documentary "A Night at the Garden" shows scenes from a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939. As expected, the speakers spout lots of anti-Jewish and anti-labor pronouncements. It just goes to show how evil can be something so simple (Hannah Arendt called it the banality of evil). And then in 2017, neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, egged on by a certain orange-skinned head of state. As Mark Twain said, history doesn't always repeat but sometimes it rhymes.

Excellent documentary. The producer is Laura Poitras, who notably filmed Glenn Greenwald's interview with Edward Snowden, turning it into the Oscar-winning documentary "Citizenfour".

No one has known that it did happen in America in 1939, just a few months before the war of great evil. But everyone has to face it now because it is the TRUTH. In this very time, this very moment, a night at the garden is a must see for EVERYONE.

A great and elegant reminder how close we are to fascism in our own times.