Shadow on the Land story
A President creates a fascist, totalitarian regime in the United States, and a resistance movement forms against it.
11 total · 7 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| creeping authoritarianism | major | The story follows the rise of a U.S. dictator similar to how Adolf Hitler gained power. |
| fascism | major | A resistance movement opposed a fascist regime which had taken power in the United States. There was a Gestapo-like internal secret police force that kept order in the state. |
| order vs. freedom | major | Gen. Wendell Bruce argued that the state was justified to curtail peoples freedoms in the name of preserving order in society. |
| resistance movement | major | A resistance movement started to oppose a fascist regime which had taken power in the United States. |
| romantic love | major | Shepherd McCloud and Abby Tyler. |
| the need for freedom | major | The resistance movement members words and actions convey this message. |
| the price of freedom is eternal vigilance | major | An inescapable message of the film. |
| brother and brother | minor | Rev. Thomas Davis and Lt. Col. Andy Davis |
| Christianity | minor | A local church was collaborating with the resistance movement. |
| coping with being tortured | minor | Lt. Col. Andy Davis was brutally beaten in an interrogation and died soon thereafter. |