The explosive, fiercely leftist cinema of Italian firebrand Gillo Pontecorvo weds revolutionary politics with an equally radical visual style. His 1966 masterpiece THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS hit the world like a bombshell, serving as an inspiration for anticolonialist movements around the globe and forging a new aesthetic language from its electrifying blend of agitprop and on-the-ground realism. Pontecorvo’s hard-hitting style and concern for the oppressed is also on display in two lesser-known but equally impassioned works: KAPÒ, one of the first films to deal head-on with the horrors of the Holocaust, and BURN!, a subversive Marxist epic starring Marlon Brando as a British imperialist who manipulates a Caribbean slave revolt.