years ago high ranking officers of the nazi regime for years i ship by the allied forces. were the 1st war criminals to be held accountable for their crimes for. found out my. pen. right. now are 2 part series the 3rd reich the dog starts nov 12th on d w. yes joan there's. the possibility for real violence in the country it's real. business. it takes someone very very strong to run this country and in my eyes i think is doing a very good job.

a deeply divided splitting america politically at the nominally i'm scripturally this is a journey through this so-called land of opportunity. for. writers filmmakers and let's all go 1st capture the current mood in the states. our 1st stop is new york city. and new york used to be the city that never sleeps that was before congress and the pandemic since passed its peak year but the big apple is still far from being back to normal. on weekends when the weather is good people can at least gather and

central part they were masks to keep saying. donald trump during his election campaign even back that few well known artists and intellectual supporters have this hasn't changed since although now 4 years later when people know what to expect warnings about reelecting trump us president. more urgent and. we've come to new york to meet 3 of the most renowned authors in the country. to find out what they expect and why. paul auster. the beginning of the air and democracy as we know is that city houston that i think we are in danger of losing this democratic republic and a half time we live in a corporate totalitarian autocracy. after spokes have been translated into more than 20 languages he's also written as we're printing place like disgraced or. so

god. like. everything we've got and i think it's going to do it. so that your boss. yes. in his new novel homeland allergies dr describes the experiences of an author he named a yet doctor whose father is a doctor who treated a child and may have become a trump supporting. director will reveal what he made up and what is real in the book but his view of america is clearly expressed in these pages. i think that in the last 50 years and this is the story that i tell in the last 50 years some notion of a collective good began to evaporate and what rose out of that dissolution was a commitment

a fierce commitment to the individual i what i want what i need america is about protecting my rights my rights to have a gun if i want it to make as much money as i want to use whatever bathroom i want . it's all the same that's not a vision of a collective society one come let's have that has lasted just a couple oster and cd. they've been married for 40 years and they're one of the most famous literary couples in the us. each time one of them writes a new book the other is its 1st reader and critic. both believe trump's reelection would pose a threat to democracy which is why together with other authors they have set up the platform writers against trying to. bring weekly online discussions and weaponize they make the point that the u.s. election in 2020 could be the most important in

a generation. the pressure of living under the trumpet ministration and watching day to day their erosion of institutions that i think many americans thought were reasonably safe has been a shocking experience and it's affected me personally i have been writing. more political essays than i ever have in my life. i have spent more time thinking about what i as one person can do to counter what is happening i think we are in danger of losing the democratic republic. their daughter sophia lost her and her friends manage the social media presence of writers against trump. as writers we know words matter they matter because.

we have a choice to make for our future for the future of our children the reaction from the republican party could mean the end of democracy in america discussions that go into. an effort to get out the vote. the vote of young people on the progressive side of things who are not happy with the buy. out of the side of not to vote i mean there are a lot of these are you list the young people who say i don't want to contaminate myself with this guy i don't like any of it well it's a it's a dangerous position at this time to have because by not voting they're essentially voting for what they don't want to which is trumping the republican presidential candidates cannot be more different i have a plan to deal with this pandemic responsibly. and the country is more pitchy divided and in over 50 years but deficient and bigotry are not new in the u.s.

they were already well established consider paths grandparents emigrated from norway and lost everything during the great depression. but they were left wing but their prejudices were very similar to right wing prejudices today and elite prejudice they railed against bankers and i think one has to remember that bankers. at the time and it remains a code for june in the context and city slickers people who lived in the cities urban types fancy types my grandparents were really ahead had those prejudices what's happened in that part of the world now is that it's flipped from left to right. but it's all it goes away back. until recently new york was known as a center of arts and culture the city often plays trails that the rest of the world

follow. now survival especially the economic kind is the main priority and not just for artists and 2016 almost 80 percent of you know our perspective democrats donald trump is a top. the can president who has been an addict of trumpets reelected president here fear it will become even harder to get federal funding to face the chrono process. and the u.s. has already been seen crying and rest for instance of a black lives matter and over measures aimed at stemming the spread of covert 19. even the words civil war are frequent here what will this country's future look like if it continues down this path. with the possibility for real violence in the country it's real that could happen but i don't know how the next few weeks are going to unfold but there is a scenario in which contested power leads to trump calling

for resistance and if that happens then i think the gloves come off. regardless of who wins the election it's difficult to feel optimistic about the current situation and what lies ahead for america difficult but not impossible. i'm optimistic about the present i'm optimistic about the joy that one can experience here and now with those one loves doing things that one loves to do helping others. but i don't think. any of us is going to escape death so i'm probably ultimately pessimistic. i mean that's what you get when you ask me a question like. that new yorkers are worried but how do americans outside of the major cities feel we spoke to 2 photographers who delved

into the division into the u.s. . tall and strong what they stand. for daughters and sons of a nation. upright and serious. portrait tells a story. they all stand for themselves. and thousands of them all they have in common is their home and the u.s. . these pictures were taken by swiss photographers monica fischer and materials prussian or. they took them during a 5 month journey across the country together with their song elias. road trip took them to 40 states for the desert in rural areas cities suburbs and songs. rather they went they kept their eyes open for interesting characters. are found to

be converted into a moment of photo studio. by the end of the trip the sets up took just 20 minutes. to opted for whites a neutral backdrop. such as everyone was on the same level in front of the camera whether the subject was a top not a scientist in texas or a welder in ohio. you might know we met most of them spontaneously either we looked for them an interesting locations or we just saw them while driving and decided to set up. i think. this is brant and this is brenda and that gun is always loaded. they were camping there he and his colleague brenda they said sure you can stay with us we'll keep watch this and he pulled out his gun and said you're safe don't worry we said that sounds good thanks they were conservative republicans real gun

in those iest she said that god had sent trump personally but they were so nice to us thought it through and from fanatical trunk funds to his enemies from proud patriots to people who are worried about the future of the country the swiss couple filmed their models and every class of us society by withholding any judgment and proceeding with curiosity they were able to make connections with all kinds of different people. the family divides its time between switzerland and new york. this last road trip gave them a whole new insight into the u.s. and into why people voted for trimmed. invest it's easier to understand if you travel across the u.s. i think the american dream the promise of it is sort of shattered if you travel

across the u.s. today especially in the center there are so many places where half the stores have shut down where life isn't that great and where there aren't so many prospects now lots of people work double jobs and yet they're barely making ends meet now. and so they're frustrated and their faith in that if they work hard enough their children will be ok is being eroded i think that's linked to why a phenomenon like trump it an absolute populist op became possible. to better understand their models the photographers interview them about their homeland. hadlee tate a rodeo rider from wyoming said nobody she knew. to democrats. on the time it takes someone very very strong to run this country and in my eyes i think is going to be a job so i just say thank you and then i'd probably get a selfie with him or something like that i don't know who. he really is i'm equal

parts from how different a different take on truth one minute with the president my personal message to him would be. no abortion law you know women going crazy for no reason you also need to get a grip and start treating women right because we really run this country and you're trying to oppress us in some way like we're going to be extinct no women are going to be around for ever so we're going to have to learn how to deal with us and give us rights that we deserve that we've had since before you were the president. the man was up if you talk to people about personal matters you don't see this divide which even runs through families or friendships but as soon as you bring up politics things get emotional done bits and what so not. it's like an underlying feeling you notice it everywhere we photographed firefighters at a fire station in michigan and the doctor in there was very clear no politics no

religion no talking about any of that. why not right he home because people would start arguing. the divides really are deeply entrenched and on the other which question it can get nasty because people are so far apart at the moment why put it on and pound the moment if you're not the issue is so emotionally charged but when you're on duty together it can't interfere with the. other. monica fisher and materials pressures larger than life pictures are on show at the stop for house museum in lynchburg losers. the exhibition's name could also be this year's u.s. election slogan divided we stand. the diverse states seem less united at least seen from the outside but what's the

deal like from the inside. in germany people are also looking at the us right now. a photo exhibit in hamburg shows pictures of america that expose the myth of the american dream. that no photographer and that black called this personal inventory of poverty migration and powerlessness american geography. using bold black and white images he depicts the underdogs in the land of endlessness abilities. the photographs look as if they were taken in another time. runs off is a bit off when i look at these pictures i have to remind myself that we are in the 21st century with and. it's a powerful show and a world premiere which the photographer couldn't attend because of coronavirus.

black grew up in california the public image let's say of disneyland of silicon valley of hollywood all of that exists. but there is another california where it's hot weather is desert where farming is tough for transfer itself and that's the one he comes from. mass black began to document that california in 2014 the sadness the does aleisha the struggle for survival. for 5 years the photographer traveled through the u.s. . it was that hundreds of places his residence lived or below the poverty line he gathered data discovered things. he met people who don't have health insurance unemployment benefits or any means of support. 'd the photographer recorded his observations in

a diary. i drive north to flint past buick city which was once the largest automobile plant in the world in 1900 general motors employed 80000 people in flint today there are fewer than 8000 people living here. matt blacks photographs tell stories about loss about lost jobs security and confidence. in one interview he said. when it comes to power in the u.s. it's always a question of race as well. my work also deals with the same issues who has access to power and who is excluded. this is a perspective of the fist perspective of change or perhaps simply of the future is a method in the pictures of the spot. and this creates

a glimpse of something completely contradicts the american dream i mean. that isn't trying to take shocking pictures he keeps a distance and doesn't tend to the dignity of those who are struggling what's shocking is that these images show the present day looking at them the campaign slogan from 4 years ago to make america great again crumbles as a hollow promise the current reality looks very different. cover to discrimination and police violence or problems that have many citizens riled up and also some filmmakers. black lives matter protests existed before trump but the trump presidency has energized the movement before the election films by in about black people films that look at themes of racism and police violence have taken center stage. after

the killing of george floyd director spike lee the film editing real life footage with a similar chokehold death of eric garner in 2014 and scenes from his own 1909 film do the right thing the writing was based upon it will live show called murder. michael and then. you know just by strangulation i was being shot dead. in the heat you give me 2 years into the trunk presidency and then some black man is shot dead. the result of violence and a fight for justice. back black people poor people everybody at the bottom ringback. in the documentary time a woman struggles to get her husband released from

a 60 year prison sentence for robbery. my name is still bill richardson and my family is awaiting on a ruling regarding my husband's allergies one of you might have any information like a. man thank you so much. that films like this go beyond protest rhetoric show the fate of real people the movies have helped shine a new light on the black lives matter movement. but tweens of the 18 needs money. they have absolutely no ad libbing news to have a father house a father. and i think that it has given people a different lens with which to evaluate that movement and i think that there were some people who make quietly been more dismissive of that movement as radical or

violent one problem quarter's response to black lives matter was to look back at the obama presidency to the lens of official white house photographer pete sosa just like yours throws obama bent over and what their kid touches her head with his hand that image stands for how kids will see themselves to for me for ever seeing those photos again but they tell a story. not only about president obama but really about the office and how important institution. and i realized it was. i think like a lot of people i kind of took for granted the stability of the prior administration. i saw who was a smash how does it deal with crisis leader. character and empathy. that you wish we had that now. you've got the current us president seems less

interested in finding common cause than in demonizing black life matter. the stated goal of b.l.m. organization people is to achieve the destruction of the nuclear family abolish the police abolish prisons abolish border security abolish capitalism and abolish school choice that's what their stated goals are for a m.l.k. f.b.i. looks back to government attempts to suppress the civil rights struggle of the 1960 s. the director sees a parallel to trump today when shoppers out there are making frequent proclaiming that the suburbs and we destroy the subtext is it's those people of color are going to come in and destroy your community. and you can law and order 'd and mean simply in america black people out of the question that dr king gave his famous march on washington pollard hopes his film can help americans to remember their own history

. in a memo dated the 30th of august no later than that. the 2nd person in the f.b.i. kevin sullivan. sends a urgent memo which he said. after the march on washington. it's clear that martin luther king jr is the most dangerous negro. in america part of my agenda as a doctor to sell me is to deal with these and she's then look at racism in america and social change i mean that's going to me way back when i was and continues. to it's continued with the rise and fall jim crow without the use of. you know with slavery but they in essence he is a part of my agenda which is. so williams is also. spent a career looking at what it means to be black in america in a kill escape which premiered at the toronto film festival williams plays a drug dealer looking to break out of a life of crime. a

slam poet a rapper and a filmmaker williams was and is always an activist 1st. in work like multi-media piece martyr loser king he matches up the past current events and virtual reality to break with an american history that leaves out black voices . and you can look at you know the history of lynching in this country through the history of police violence or the history of policing and ordering laws and all of these things and go this is not civilized. this is barbaric. artists and filmmakers continue to draw strength and inspiration from black lives matter and not just ahead of the election they are already looking to the time beyond the trump presidency. there will be you know

question of how we got here but also what we did after and i think like like i want to be part of what we did after. the time after trying it is the younger generation who hope that their voices will be heard. and that was our road trip through america's cultural scene after the election the next pass will become clearer thanks for watching.

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