Happy Anniversary to Freaks and Geeks! The first episode, written by series creator Paul Feig, aired on NBC on September 25th, 1999. Just over twenty years later, the pilot script remains especially high on my list of recommended reading for patrons visiting the WGF Library.

Freaks and Geeks was a small and magical burst of television—like a song by Joan Jett & Blackhearts—short, raucous, but packed with emotion and entirely enduring… probably twenty years ahead of its time. If you’re a writer at any level in your career, you probably aspire to write something that really packs a wallop and sticks with people in the same way.

If, as a screen storyteller, you find yourself staring into the endless abyss of tweets and headlines about corruption and lies, consider turning your frustration and hopelessness into a whistleblower movie or perhaps a whistleblower mini-series. This is a list of some films that help to establish the tenets of this wonderful sub-genre. All of them are scripts you can find in the WGF Library.