"One of the year’s most important movies—for its subversive politics—but it's also one tightly made B-movie, entertaining, and zippy as all hell." Cinema Scope on Homecoming

Made for Showtime's Masters of Horror series during the height of the Bush administration's "Mission Accomplished" phase of the Iraq War, Homecoming was one of the first films to directly address the hysterias and hypocrisies of the era, and it remains jaw-dropping today. Both outrageous and full of outrage, Homecoming shows American soldiers killed during the Iraq War coming back to life as zombies intent not on eating brains but on voting out the President who sent them to war on false pretenses. (58 mins., video)

Although The Second Civil War has been shamefully overlooked in the US, it's Dante's best-known film in Europe. Like Network, the film seems less like parody or satire and more prescient with each passing year. With a stellar ensemble cast, the film follows an Idaho governor (Beau Bridges) who wants to defy the president (Phil Hartman!) and close his state's borders to a planeload of Pakistani orphans headed his way. The media whips everything into an overly heated state, and the nation becomes polarized over the issue. The made-for-HBO movie also stars James Earl Jones, James Coburn, Joanna Cassidy, Dan Hedaya, Denis Leary, Ron Perlman, and Elizabeth Peña. (97 mins., 35mm)

The Second Civil War print courtesy of the Joe Dante and Jon Davison Collection at the Academy Film Archive.

Homecoming trailer