Political Drama
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    The Good Shepherd (2006)

    During the early years of the Central Intelligence Agency, a founding member (Matt Damon) finds...

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    Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)

    CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) criticizes Sen. Joseph McCarthy's tactics in the...

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    State of Play (2009)

    An investigative journalist (Russell Crowe) stumbles into a cover-up of gigantic proportions as he...

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    All The King's Men (2006)

    A Southern politician's (Sean Penn) idealism and good intentions give way to corruption after he...

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    The Kingdom (2007)

    A sympathetic Saudi police captain helps a team of federal agents (Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper,...

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    Frost/Nixon (2008)

    An on-air battle of wits ensues when former President Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) selects British...

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    Hotel Rwanda (2004)

    Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) saves more than 1,200 Tutsi refugees from genocide by hiding them at...

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    Lord of War (2005)

    A relentless Interpol agent tracks an arms dealer (Nicolas Cage) trying to stay one step ahead of...

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    The Last King of Scotland (2006)

    The personal physician (James McAvoy) of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker) witnesses his...

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    The Lost City (2006)

    Castro's Communist Revolution sweeps through Cuba, catching an apolitical Havana club owner (Andy...

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    The Walker (2007)

    An escort (Woody Harrelson) for some of the most powerful women in Washington, D.C., becomes...

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    The Queen (2006)

    Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) and Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) try to reach a...

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    He Who Must Die (1957)

    Three townspeople cause an uproar when they try to help refugees on a Greek island occupied by...

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    Bobby (2006)

    In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in...

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    Amazing Grace (2007)

    William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) and his close friend, William Pitt (Benedict Cumberbatch), wage...

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    O Jerusalem (2007)

    Epic drama of 1948, in which Arabs and Jews fought each other for the city of Jerusalem.

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    Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

    Based on the story of Ron Kovic, a Marine who returned from Vietnam a paraplegic and later became an...

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    The Red Corner (1997)

    A Chinese attorney (Bai Ling) defends a U.S. businessman (Richard Gere) accused of killing a model...

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    Courage Under Fire (1996)

    A troubled officer (Denzel Washington) reviews the Medal of Honor candidacy of a female helicopter...

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    A Dry White Season (1989)

    A white South African challenges government policies when he accuses a police captain of the murder...

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    Good (2008)

    The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions...

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    1900 (1977)

    Set in the countryside of the Province of Emilia in Italy, the story of two men, one a bastard born...

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    The Little Traitor (2009)

    In 1947 Palestine, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet...

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    The Contender (2000)

    A vice presidential nominee (Joan Allen) refuses to testify at her confirmation hearing after an...

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    In My Country (2005)

    An American reporter (Samuel L. Jackson) and an Afrikaans poet (Juliette Binoche) meet and fall in...

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    The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007)

    In 1920s Ireland a young doctor (Cillian Murphy) joins the Irish Republican Army after witnessing...

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    The Quiet American (2002)

    A veteran English journalist (Michael Caine) and a young man (Brendan Fraser) vie for the affection...

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    Mad City (1997)

    An investigative reporter (Dustin Hoffman) brings national attention to a fired security guard (John...

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    Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007)

    Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) becomes one of Great Britain's best-known public executioners and...

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    Fires Within (1991)

    After eight years, a Cuban exile (Jimmy Smits) joins his wife (Greta Scacchi) and daughter in Miami,...

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    Fame Is the Spur

    A British politician (Michael Redgrave) changes from rabble-rouser of the working class to stodgy...

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    The Blind Goddess

    The blind goddess is justice, which may or may not be served in this British second feature. Eric...

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    Milk (2008)

    In San Francisco, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) becomes the first openly gay man elected to a notable U.S....

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    Looking for Cheyenne (2007)

    Former lovers (Mila Dekker, Aurélia Petit) still desire each other but lead different lifestyles;...

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    Nixon (1995)

    Insecurities haunt the 37th president (Anthony Hopkins) as he wins two terms, ends the Vietnam War...

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    Beyond the Gates (2007)

    In 1994 Rwanda, a priest (John Hurt) and a teacher (Hugh Dancy) at a secondary school get caught up...

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    Paradise Now (2005)

    Two Palestinian men (Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman) are chosen to commit a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv,...

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    W. (2008)

    George W. Bush (Josh Brolin) transforms himself from a ne'er-do-well son of privilege to president...

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    All the President's Men (1976)

    The Washington Post's Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) tie the...

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    Cradle Will Rock (1999)

    Orson Welles and John Houseman struggle in 1936 to open the play ``The Cradle Will Rock'' after U.S....

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    The F Word

    A radio-talk-show host (Josh Hamilton) marches through Manhattan, N.Y., when the Federal...

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    The War Within (2005)

    A Pakistani (Ayad Akhtar) stays in the home of his longtime friend (Firdous Bamji) while planning a...

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    Before Night Falls (2000)

    Writer Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem), a homosexual, sees revolution in Cuba and lives as an exile...

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    Queimada! (1969)

    A British colonist is sent to instigate a revolution on a Caribbean island instrumental to the sugar...

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    Prisoners of the Sun (1991)

    An Australian captain (Bryan Brown) tries to prosecute a Japanese baron (George Takei) for POW-camp...

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    Malcolm X (1992)

    The civil-rights leader (Denzel Washington) rises from criminal to crusader, undergoing a religious...

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    Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

    A congressman (Tom Hanks), a socialite (Julia Roberts) and a CIA agent (Philip Seymour Hoffman) are...

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    Choose Connor (2008)

    Fifteen-year-old Owen Norris is at the top of his graduating middle-school class, and wants to know...

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    Nothing But the Truth (2008)

    After writing an article that reveals the name of a covert CIA operative, a reporter (Kate...

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    Rosewood (1997)

    Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in...