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Lies Agreed Upon
Lies Agreed Upon looks at how Hollywood uses history to talk about today. Hosts Lia Paradis and Brian Crim explore the plots and themes of movies and tv shows and discuss how they were influenced by the historical events of the moment. For more on Lies Agreed Upon, go here.
November 2, 2022
Shaken and Stirred
We couldn’t do a season on the Cold War without talking about Bond . . . James Bond. He was there from the beginning and has of course survived into t…
October 26, 2022
Shall We Play A Game?
Remember Khrushchev-Nixon Kitchen Debate? America recognized its consumer culture was a Cold War weapon. By the early 80s, the home computer in the ha…
October 19, 2022
Wolverines!
This episode and the next look back at films that came out in the 1980s, a decade when Hollywood seemed to cater to teenage audiences like never befor…
October 12, 2022
"Lies Agreed Upon" Bonus Episode
Lia and Brian revisit the first two seasons of Lies Agreed Upon for new listeners. Their conversation relates some specific episodes to current events…
October 5, 2022
The Two Russias
In the late 1980s, Hollywood reflected the real world thaw in the Cold War by depicting the idea of two Russias: the cold bureaucratic state run by gr…
September 28, 2022
Cold War Homefront
We could do a whole season on Vietnam war films, but in this episode we chose three films that highlight the Cold War’s omnipresence in daily life. Yo…
September 21, 2022
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
Last episode we discussed films about how a nuclear war would start, particularly the insane logic of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). In this epis…
September 14, 2022
A MAD, MAD, World
The world lived under the shadow of the acronym MAD for forty years. Mutually Assured Destruction was no laughing matter, but Stanley Kubrick thought …
September 7, 2022
Who Can You Trust?
Can you imagine living in a society that is ostensibly a democracy but secret forces are working behind the scenes to manipulate events? What if our i…
August 31, 2022
He May Be a Communist!
We are back for a third season! The Russian invasion of Ukraine reminded us all that “everything old is new again” and that includes Cold War tensions…
November 17, 2021
Back in the USSR
Dr. Zhivago (1956) and Reds (1981) humanize and problematize the Bolshevik Revolution during periods when the Cold War was particularly intense. When …
November 3, 2021
Workers of the World Unite!
Continuing the theme of social revolution, this episode looks at cinematic depictions of the struggle for basic workers' rights and tolerable conditio…
October 20, 2021
Votes for Women . . . And More!
Social revolutions may not always be bloody or prompt regime change, but they are vital to a healthy democracy. In this episode we cover popular repre…
October 6, 2021
"Westerners Do Not Have Answers Anymore"
In this episode we cover Australian director Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) and the unforgettable docudrama The Killing Fields (19…
September 29, 2021
¡Viva La Revolucion!
On the theme of “covering the revolution”, we first take on two films that drop us in the middle of Latin America at the beginning of a bloody new cha…
September 15, 2021
Revolution! The Musical
In this third and final episode on the American Revolution, we look at the momentous events through an entirely different genre - the musical. You did…
September 8, 2021
History from Below
In episode two we continue to examine the American Revolution, but we look at two series that focus less on the famous Founding Fathers and, instead, …
September 1, 2021
The Adams Family
This season, we’re going to be looking at the general theme of rebels and rebellions, revolutionaries and revolts, insurrectionists and traitors, free…
February 17, 2021
SciFi and 9/11 (Part 2)
In this second of two discussions about SciFi and 9/11, we look at 3 tv series: Battlestar Galactica, Falling Skies and The Leftovers. This is the las…
February 10, 2021
SciFi and 9/11 (Part 1)
In our final 2 episodes of Season 1 we’re doing something a little different. Our focus has been on how historical events are portrayed on screen afte…