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Shadow on the Land (1968)
More relevant than ever
Why hasn't this movie been shown on television for years? There's definitely a consistency of opinion amongst those who are old enough to have been around on it's first showing in 1968 that it had a powerful and frightening message.
I am one of those who saw it so many years ago, and it's a movie that I've been wanting to see again ever since, but amazingly, it's never been shown or even now released on VHS or DVD.
The subject of the film that the US government is taken over by a totalitarian regime seemed impossible back then, but today whenever I see Dick Cheney talking on television it makes this concept seem not so implausible.
If this film ever becomes widely available, it should be watched in conjunction with 1964's Seven Days In May as a warning to future generations to be ever vigilant for the freedoms they currently enjoy.