Snitch Culture: The Informant on Screen

The snitch as character: Soderbergh's 'The Informant!', the documentary 'The Informant' and Hollywood's 'Snitch', plus Last Week Tonight on wrongful convictions and Intercept, Vox and NowThis reports on the FBI's informant machine — how the culture digests the man who talks.

Playlist by @jailhouse_informant_docs

7 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The Informant! (2009) Trailer #1 — Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
2. Informant Official Trailer 1 (2013) - Documentary HD — Rotten Tomatoes Indie
3. Snitch Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Dwayne Johnson Movie HD — Rotten Tomatoes Trailers
4. Wrongful Convictions: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) — LastWeekTonight
5. Recordings Capture Brutal FBI Tactics to Recruit a Potential Informant — The Intercept
6. Why the US government murdered Fred Hampton — Vox
7. COINTELPRO: Why Did the FBI Target Black Activists Fighting for Equality? | NowThis — NowThis Impact