A Night at the Garden

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

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

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".

It's terrifying. A Nazi rally was held in NYC before the outbreak of WWII, and this film shows some archival footage from that rally.

There are obvious parallels to modern political rallies, but I was more terrified at the fact that as a nation, there was anyone dancing publicly with the Nazi idea so proudly. I had no idea that this occurred so brazenly in our history, and to this level of scale.

Films like this are uncomfortable to watch, and I do feel like this was a targeted glimpse to look at only pieces that paralleled the modern rally. I want to see more context here and understand what led to this, and if there was any noticeable outcome.