In Our Hands, Part 1: How We Got What We Have (1950)

★★★★★ · Excellent critique of the collectivist argument · DrCruel · 2009-07-13

Actually a fairly accurate description of American exceptionalism, and the tricky methodologies used by Marxist regimes both to gain power and to consolidate their authority once in power. The third film is especially well though out, as it apparently uses the historical experience of Ukranian kulaks and the like to describe how a Marxist regime operates in practice - I'm sure plenty of Venezuelan employees of Prevenza, or disenfranchised industrial farmers from Rhodesia, would find plenty to recognise from the narrative. The commentary about a plebiscite to throw out the national…

★★★★★ · Compliments an honest history book · XDelusion · 2006-06-21

I'd definatly suggest reading up on your history before watching this. Perhaps read Howard Zinn's: A People's History of the U.S., or if you are lazy and don't read like most Americans (they way they like us), then I would highly suggest watching the PBS mini-series: Race - The power of an Illusion... at least the second video, it will give you a crash course on accurate American history and objectives. Finally come back to this video and you will see a nightmare rather than just mere history. A far cry from the teachings of Jesus if anything.

★★★★ · We Got what We Have From Being Americans! (snicker) · Spuzz · 2003-08-18

A truly bizarre mindfuck of a short. This odd little ditty crams so much information into it's 20 minute time frame that your head starts to hurt. At first it's a finger point at all the bad men in their communist countries, like Hitler, Mao, Mussolini, you know those guys. From there, the film seems to take a 180 degree turn and goes 'Survivor' on us by taking a husband and wife and baby and taking away everything they take for granted, housing, food, clothing and we get to watch them duke it out for themselves. Very bizarre. The film goes back to 'normal' and we see What Makes America So…

★★★ · How we lie about what we got · Steve Nordby · 2003-08-21

A twisted 20 minute attempt to explain that the Industrial Revolution was due to the rights outlined in the Declaration of Independence. The proof: post World War 2 statistics about the industrial power of the United States (never mind that the US, the UK, the USSR, Germany, and Japan bombed the hell out of the rest of the industrialized world). Dramatized section a third of the way through throws a modern family into a world without civilization and bears no logical connection to the rest, and for that alone it's worth a view.

★★★ · Yikes! The Very Thought of Getting My Hands Dirty! · JayKay49 · 2013-01-14

Not me. I'm gonna spend 40K on college and work in a cubicle collating checklists for lawyers and the IRS to use. One day I'll be a GS-7 by God! Let China worry about making things and stuff. We'll just outlaw all that dirty nonsense here. Who needs it? We just print money. Way easier. Shows a Euro white couple after Islam completes its conquest of the developed world. I guess they are in hiding because she lost her burka. Scary, isn't it? This short will bewilder many, I presume.

★ · Huh? · donwert · 2010-06-13

Weird little film---one of a series produced by Borg Warner and Inland Steel at the dawn of the McCarthy era---purporting to tell us why we Americans are so great! Why, we have 50% of the world's productive capacity! I'm sure the fact that, in 1950, the rest of the industrialized world was just starting to rebuild after the war had nothing to do with it! There's a strange interlude showing how tough life would be without farms, factories and housing (duh!) which is disconnected from the apparent point of the film. The star, by the way, is the guy who later played Sky King---"Out of the clear…