Browse Movies : Political (Page #4)

Robin Williams will play a Jon Stewart-like host of a latenight political talkshow who runs for president to make noise on the campaign trail. The stunt backfires after a series of unusual circumstances leads him to victory.

One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that 80-year-old master documentarian Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for and working toward all his life: a million and a half people in the streets of Santiago, the Chilean capital, demanding justice, education, health care, and a new constitution to replace the strident rules imposed on the country during the Pinochet military dictatorship. Urgent and topical, My Imaginary Country features harrowing front-line protest footage and interviews with the dynamic activist leaders who are bringing about a regime change. Guzmán powerfully connects Chile's complex, bloody history to contemporary revolutionary social movements and the election of a popular new president.

A junior U.S. senator comes to believe that the president is mentally unbalanced and sliding into paranoia amid escalating tensions with the Soviet Union.

The original documentary was a behind-the-scenes look at the Bolivian presidential election of 2002, when candidate Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (aka Goni) hired James Carville's Washington-based political consulting firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner to help him win. Goni's poll numbers were dismal, with Bolivians accusing him of being too closely aligned with U.S. interests. Employing the same tactics they do in the U.S., Carville -- who himself flew in -- and his team used focus groups, sloganeering and smear tactics. Goni won by a narrow margin, but the work had only just begun for Carville's team. Bolivia descended into crisis under Goni's rule, and he was ultimately forced to resign.

A documentary on Sarah Palin that speaks with school friends, family and Republican colleagues of the former governor of Alaska.

The story follows a young American expatriate in France whose translating job for a shadowy powerbroker draws him into violent political intrigue, corruption and murder.

A drama that chronicles the scandalous implosion of Senator John Edwards' 2008 run to be the Democratic presidential candidate.

Turaqistan is a country occupied by an American private corporation run by the former US Vice President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Hauser to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah, an outrageous Central Asian pop star and keeping a sexy left-wing reporter in check.

American intelligence specialist Reality Leigh Winner is the first to expose Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. She is arrested in 2017 for removing confidential documents from the government and feeding them to the press In 2018; Winner is sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison.

After an economic collapse in the near-future United States, its top innovators and industrialists mysteriously disappear amid the growing power of politicians.

Story centers on three enemy soldiers -- an Israeli, an American and an Australian Arab -- being are accidentally locked in a Middle East military communication base where things go horribly wrong.

Centers on aspiring politician Karl Rove as he leads a dirty campaign for College Republican Chairman under the guidance of Lee Atwater, his campaign manager.

Based on the political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s, involving the wrongful conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in 1894 for treason. Dreyfus was a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent who was accused of giving French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris.

A political thriller involving a journalist and a group of extremists in modern-day Jerusalem.

Traces GOP operative Allen Raymond’s downfall following a campaign to jam phone lines at Democratic Party headquarters in an effort to swing a 2002 Senate election in New Hampshire.

Political comedy looks at what might go on behind closed doors in London and Washington in the lead-up to a not-so-fictional war in the Middle East.

Texas senator Wendy Davis' 11-hour filibuster helps stall an anti-abortion bill in the Texas state house.

U.S. Rep. Richard Thompson investigates the kidnapping of one of his staffers by Communist rebels in Romania. In the process, he becomes embroiled in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, with the control of Eastern Europe hanging in the balance.