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Let Her Speak
Texas senator Wendy Davis' 11-hour filibuster helps stall an anti-abortion bill in the Texas state house.
Mayor Pete
Documents Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has he campaigns to be the first openly gay president in United States history.
November 12, 2021 Prime Video
Night of Camp David
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.
Reason of State
Set over 24 hours inside of 10 Downing Street.
Rodham
During the height of the Watergate scandal, rising star Hillary Rodham is the youngest lawyer chosen for the House Judiciary Committee to Impeach Nixon, but she soon finds herself forced to choose between a destined path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for Bill Clinton, her former boyfriend who now teaches law in Arkansas.
Run This Town
A young journalist and a young political aide become entangled in a larger-than-life political scandal as they struggle to navigate adult life. Like all their friends, Bram and Kamal are struggling to climb the ladders at their respective workplaces: Bram at a newspaper, Kamal at City Hall. When Bram learns of a scandal involving Kamal’s larger-than-life boss, he seizes the moment to advance his career. Meanwhile, Kamal grapples with containing the story while maintaining his integrity.
The Lady
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris and the epic story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement.
The Last Thing He Wanted
Adapted from the Joan Didion novel of the same title, The Last Thing He Wanted is set against the nebulous milieu of the Iran-Contra scandal. Veteran D.C. journalist Elena McMahon (Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway) abandons the 1984 campaign trail out of a misguided sense of duty to her father, Dick McMahon (Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe). Guilted into running a dangerous fool’s errand on his behalf, Elena leverages the moment to pursue her own investigation but instead gets tipped into the confounding center of the very intrigue she’s trying to expose. Answers turn into questions and wrong turns lead to dead ends in this stylish political thriller as Elena becomes increasingly lost on a map of someone else’s making and the possibility of return — to home and to herself — slowly narrows.
February 21, 2020 Netflix
The Runner
Set in the aftermath of the tragic 2010 BP oil spill, Colin Price, an idealistic but flawed New Orleans congressman, is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
The Trial of the Chicago 7
What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest—including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale—were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history.
October 16, 2020 Limited Netflix
Weiner
The film centers on the disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, whose career went off the rails twice, both times for public revelations about his sex life.
Winner
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.
A Man Must Die
Described as a being in the vein of Carlos.
Against All Enemies
A counterterrorism adviser to the past three presidents charges that the Bush administration prioritized Iraq above threats from al Qaeda before and after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Bordering on Bad Behavior
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.
January 15, 2018 VOD / Digital
College Republicans
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.
Location: US - Texas
Divide and Conquer: The...
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes deftly fuses the personal, the political and the surreal as it charts the rise and fall of Fox News mogul, Roger Ailes. A key media consultant to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Ailes powerfully shaped American political history. But after creating a ratings powerhouse, he went down in flames amid scandal, paranoia, and multiple sexual harassment allegations.
December 7, 2018 Limited
Grassroots
Story centers on a recently fired journalist who reluctantly agrees to spearhead the Seattle City Council campaign of his eccentric friend, a former pedicab driver with a burning passion for the Monorail.
Inquest
A London investigator is hired to discover whether Princess Diana's death was a tragic accident or something more. When he begins to uncover a conspiracy, the gumshoe’s own safety is compromised.
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Using interviews and rare archival footage, John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 79 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinéma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.