PW's Highly Recommended
Books, Movies & TV shows

Books

1984, George Orwell

It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis

Oryx & Crake, Margaret Atwood

A Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (short story), Ursula LeGuin

The Truth Machine, James Halperin

Blindness, Jose Saramago

Written Nonfiction

Strategies of Containment, John Lewis Gaddis

A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn

Brain Power, Karl Albrecht

The Power Broker, Robert Caro

Inevitable Revolutions, Walter LaFeber

The Cousins' Wars, Kevin Philips

Deterring Democracy, Noam Chomsky

Who Rules America? by G. William Domhoff

Movies

Jacob's Ladder
Blade Runner
Dead Presidents
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
28 Days later
A League of Their Own
The Siege (not THAT one, the other one)
Requiem For A Dream
Deep Cover
12 Angry Men
The Thing
Welcome To The Dollhouse
The Insider
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Million Dollar Baby
Crash
16 Blocks
The Dark Knight
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
No Country For Old Men

Television

Jeopardy!
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
The X-Files
The Wire