Just had the pleasure of watching @Phil_Tinline& #39;s stupendous little documentary on the Korean War POW "brainwashing" scare of the 1950s, "Every Man Has its Breaking Point." Quality quarantine viewing! http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/documentaries/every-man-breaking-point-reagan-brainwashing-movies/?fbclid=IwAR2O0Xrtz3ylKMbOfe2EjyKKad-PgoWWYse4d73vhPEI9Dnhl7c-Lcp0GRo">https://www.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenper...

The subject& #39;s a skeleton key to unlocking huge chunks of American cultural history: of how 1950s Americans negotiated a systematic denial of America& #39;s flaws; of the rise of the early 1960s far-right; of the uses and abuses of Vietnam War POWs by Richard Nixon to sell his war...

of America& #39;s "war on terror" torture (based in techniques learned in "SERE" training to resist torture)); and the horror of America& #39;s present-day long-term commitment to mass torture when it comes to solitary confinement in incarceration.

The doc is artfully constructed around Ronald Reagan& #39;s 1954 film "Prisoner of War," explaining, in a twist, why what was supposed to be a blockbuster became a flop--which if it had turned out only a little differently, might have ended up with Reagan staying in Hollywood.