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The High House is a vision of a dreadful future after climate catastrophe

It takes courage to write about climate catastrophe as it’s likely to unfold—steadily but also suddenly, and with a huge loss of life, in every sense of the word

BBC documentary Extra Life explores the long history of racism and vaccines

Extra Life explores previous global pandemics to learn lessons in the fight against Covid-19

The End of Men is a pandemic-era novel that cuts very close to the bone

This is a stunning book with an unfortunately horribly familiar theme—how to cope with a deadly pandemic

The Bike Thief tells a story of precarity, poverty and survival

The family of a Romanian delivery driver teeters on the brink when his motorbike goes missing, in The Bike Thief

Beast Beast—growing up and shattered innocence in a US suburb

Beast Beast brings together the lives of three young people in what feels like a long hazy summer, coming-of-age drama.

Cowboys—a Western that’s also a coming out journey

A trans boy and his father go on the run in search of freedom, in this welcome exploration of the tensions that can accompany coming out

Nomadland is a powerful—but drippy—austerity story

This film has won plaudits and awards because it resonates with life after a decade of loss—but it’s all just a bit too sentimental

Alan Partridge returns in familiar blend of satire and slapstick

Norwich’s finest export is back for a second series where he is so desperate to belong—in front of a TV camera

Ghosts—Glasgow’s hidden slave trade history revealed

Ghosts, written and directed by Adura Onashile, is the latest work by the National Theatre of Scotland

New novel shows the truth of the Egyptian Revolution

The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany brings the story of the revolution to life through the eyes of those who lived it

Safe—stories of survival

Safe—a new digital theatre production—tells the real stories of four young LGBT+ people facing homelessness or living in difficult circumstances

I Blame Society—how to make a killing in a sexist industry

I Blame Society is a mockumentary about film industry sexism with a dose of serial murder dropped in

Deutschland ’89—the end of Communism and the big grey mess of history

The Deutschland TV series’ writer and creator Anna Winger told Socialist Worker how it combines truth and fiction

Greta Thunberg’s fight to force action for the climate

A BBC documentary focuses on the climate activist who inspired a movement. But Thunberg insists it’s not all about one person

Seaspiracy—is there something fishy behind ocean pollution?

Seaspiracy has a great deal to say about capitalism’s damage of our oceans from pollution and species destruction

The Mauritanian gives a face to the victims of US torture

This is the true story of a man locked in Guantanamo Bay without charge for 14 years

Menace and mystery in jumpy psychological horror The Night

The Night is a horror movie set largely in a small space with just a handful of characters

Ahoy, matey! Pirate series treasures truth of high seas

Gabby Thorpe urges Socialist Worker readers to get beyond this docudrama’s corny characters and misshapen plots, and embrace their inner raider

The truth behind the Khashoggi killing

The Dissident is the true story of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi Arabian journalist who walked into his country’s consul in Istanbul and disappeared.