"Maybe you'd sneak into the top 10..." Posted by Patrick Barry

One pretty conspicuous, but unsurprising absence from Stephen Walt's 'Top 10 Foreign Policy Movies' is Battle of Algiers.  It's conspicuous, because perhaps more than any other film, Algiers best portended the challenges that a great power like the U.S. could face from popular resistance movements and insurgencies. The Pentagon even screened it prior to the invasion of Iraq, and though no one seemed to have gotten the message initially, it remains required viewing for anyone interested in the concepts of insurgency and counterinsurgency, which are currently so in vogue. 

But Algiers absence is also unsurprising. As my colleague Max Bergmann - who studied the film, its context, and its implications during grad school - points out, while Algiers deals with concepts like political violence and asymmetric warfare directed at an occupying power, it's not really a movie about relations among nation-states.  For a consummate realist like Walt to leave it out is therefore not at all shocking, but it does suggest realism's shortcomings in explaining power dynamics between large states and the non-state actors that challenge their supremacy. 

Runner-up: James Lamond picks Rocky IV.  If you disagree, "I must break you."

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