The Wobblies’ Return
A lovingly restored 1979 film excavates the lost history of American radicalism.
Book Burning at Midnight, May 10th, 1933
At the stroke of midnight on May 10th, 1933, the National Socialist German Students Union ignited a bonfire that—in the American imagination, at least—would never entirely flicker out. Illuminated by floodlights and flames, broadcast live on German radio, filmed by the newsreels, and rewound in archival documentaries ever
