“The Burning Cross” + Q&A at National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival 2026
When:
Sunday, Apr 12, 2026 1:00p -
3:00p
Sunday, Apr 12, 2026 1:00p -
3:00p
Where:
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
Admission:
$17
Hosted by:
Categories:
Festivals & Fairs, History, Movies
Event website:
https://filmfest2026.jewishfilm.org/films/the-burning-cross
East Coast Premiere of New Restoration
Q&A with Brandeis University Professor Thomas Doherty, Author Hollywood & Hitler and the new book How Film Became History
One of the boldest American films of the postwar period to tackle homegrown fascism, The Burning Cross was the first anti-Klan film to explicitly depict Black Americans as victims of KKK terror on screen. This little know and rarely screened thriller was banned by censor boards in Virginia and Detroit upon its release in 1947. Johnny Larimer (Henry Daniels Jr) is a newly discharged WWII veteran unable to re-adjust to life in his small hometown, when he falls in with a local white supremacist group called the “American Only Association.” The film’s depiction of how racist rhetoric culminates in violence, and how voter suppression, corporate grift, and political corruption quickly metastasize to supplant democratic rule and law and order is clear-eyed and squarely on point. Director: Walter Colmes. USA, 1947, English, 77 min.
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