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A German high school teacher who is assigned to teach 'autocracy' runs a week-long classroom experiment: discipline, a uniform, a salute, a name. The class starts calling themselves The Wave, and within days the experiment stops being one. It is based on a real 1967 California classroom exercise and Todd Strasser's novel, moved to modern Germany.

Why it’s here: The film's whole argument is that a group of ordinary teenagers doesn't need history's villains to build a movement of belonging and exclusion, just a teacher, a uniform and a promise to be part of something. What's punk is that it is aimed at the audience's comfort: you are not immune. What's pedagogical is the experiment itself, which is easy to run, easy to discuss and hard to forget. It is the natural companion for How Fascism Works and They Thought They Were Free.

The film follows the Cambridge Analytica scandal through three people: David Carroll, a professor suing to get his own data back; Brittany Kaiser, a former company insider; and Carole Cadwalladr, the reporter who broke the story. It lays out how a political consultancy used Facebook data to build voter profiles and target them with tailored messages.

Why it’s here: The film makes data harvesting feel like something done to you personally, and shows how profiling was turned into political persuasion. What's punk is Carroll's lawsuit and Cadwalladr's reporting. What's pedagogical is the explanation of what data-brokering is. Note: it frames Kaiser as a conscience-stricken whistleblower, which is arguable, and the real impact of the targeting is still debated. Pairs with Your Face Belongs to Us, Data and Goliath and Citizenfour.