Movies: Politics

  • 1999
    Herod's Law

    Herod's Law (1999)

    Herod's Law

    81999HD

    In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system ...

    Herod's Law
  • 2003
    The Fog of War

    The Fog of War (2003)

    The Fog of War

    7.72003HD

    Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing ...

    The Fog of War
  • 2004
    Spartan

    Spartan (2004)

    Spartan

    6.22004HD

    U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a p...

    Spartan
  • 2006
    Bobby

    Bobby (2006)

    Bobby

    6.42006HD

    In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles....

    Bobby
  • 1999
    The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

    The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

    The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

    6.41999HD

    In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, th...

    The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
  • 1998
    Bulworth

    Bulworth (1998)

    Bulworth

    6.31998HD

    A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture....

    Bulworth
  • 2000
    The Contender

    The Contender (2000)

    The Contender

    6.72000HD

    The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agend...

    The Contender
  • 1966
    Masculin Féminin

    Masculin Féminin (1966)

    Masculin Féminin

    7.31966HD

    Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism...

    Masculin Féminin
  • 2001
    The Tailor of Panama

    The Tailor of Panama (2001)

    The Tailor of Panama

    62001HD

    A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor ...

    The Tailor of Panama
  • 2006
    An Inconvenient Truth

    An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

    An Inconvenient Truth

    6.92006HD

    A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide....

    An Inconvenient Truth
  • 2006
    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men (2006)

    All the King's Men

    5.82006HD

    The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life ...

    All the King's Men
  • 1967
    La Chinoise

    La Chinoise (1967)

    La Chinoise

    71967HD

    Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studyi...

    La Chinoise
  • 2004
    The Edukators

    The Edukators (2004)

    The Edukators

    7.22004HD

    Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home....

    The Edukators
  • 1972
    Slap the Monster on Page One

    Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)

    Slap the Monster on Page One

    7.61972HD

    Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bos...

    Slap the Monster on Page One
  • 1989
    Balance

    Balance (1989)

    Balance

    7.51989HD

    The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform...

    Balance
  • 1984
    The Times of Harvey Milk

    The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

    The Times of Harvey Milk

    7.31984HD

    Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world....

    The Times of Harvey Milk
  • 1995
    Operation Dumbo Drop

    Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)

    Operation Dumbo Drop

    5.21995HD

    Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard...

    Operation Dumbo Drop
  • 1972
    The Candidate

    The Candidate (1972)

    The Candidate

    6.51972HD

    Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment....

    The Candidate
  • 1974
    The Parallax View

    The Parallax View (1974)

    The Parallax View

    6.81974HD

    An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines....

    The Parallax View
  • 1994
    Speechless

    Speechless (1994)

    Speechless

    5.91994HD

    In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for candidates on opposite sides....

    Speechless