Topic: Politics

Direction David Simon · Joe Chappelle · Ernest R. Dickerson · Clark Johnson

Cast Dominic West · Lance Reddick · Sonja Sohn · Clarke Peters

Plot TV Series (2002-2008). 5 Seasons. 60 episodes. This unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of...

Direction Craig Mazin · Johan Renck

Cast Jared Harris · Stellan Skarsgard · Emily Watson · Paul Ritter

Plot TV miniseries (2019). 5 Episodes. In April 1986 an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the USSR becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.

Direction Patricio Guzmán

Cast Salvador Allende · Carlos Altamirano · Fernando Castillo

Plot The second film in a two-part documentary on the fate of Allende's Popular Unity government filmed throughout Chile from February to September 1973. Part two opens with the attempted military...

Direction Patricio Guzmán

Cast Salvador Allende · Abilio Fernández

Plot The first film in a two-part documentary on the fate of Allende's Popular Unity government filmed throughout Chile from February to September 1973. Part one examines the escalation of rightist...

Direction Chris Marker

Plot French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin...

Direction Greg Daniels · Michael Schur · Dean Holland · Ken Whittingham

Cast Amy Poehler · Nick Offerman · Aubrey Plaza · Chris Pratt

Plot TV Series (2009-2015). 7 Seasons. 125 Episodes. The series follows Leslie Knope, the head of the Parks and Recreation department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. Knope takes on...

Direction Alejandro Borensztein · Sebastián Borensztein

Cast Tato Bores · Leonardo Sbaraglia · Moria Casán · Gerardo Romano

Direction Abbas Fahdel

Direction Patricio Guzmán

Plot Completed two years after the first two parts of "The Battle of Chile" in 1978, this film deals with the creation of thousands of local groups of "popular power" by...

Direction Beau Willimon · David Fincher · James Foley · Robin Wright

Cast Kevin Spacey · Robin Wright · Michael Kelly · Kate Mara

Plot TV Series (2013-2018). 6 Seasons. 73 Episodes. Ruthless and cunning, Congressman Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) and his ambitious wife Claire (Robin Wright) stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked...

Direction Adam Price · Mikkel Nørgaard · Annette K. Olesen · Louise Friedberg

Cast Sidse Babett Knudsen · Birgitte Hjort Sørensen · Pilou Asbæk · Mikael Birkkjær

Plot TV Series (2010-2013). 3 Seasons. 30 Episodes. A danish political drama television series that tells the story of charismatic politician Birgitte Nyborg who unexpectedly becomes the first female Prime Minister...

Direction Harun Farocki · Andrei Ujica

Direction Daniel Costelle · Isabelle Clarke

Plot Chronicles Hitler's life as a failed painter and far-right activist up to his election as Chancellor of Germany, leading to his relentless rise to power, culminating in the beginning of...

Direction Ronald D. Moore · Glen A. Larson · Michael Rymer · Michael Nankin

Cast Edward James Olmos · Mary McDonnell · Jamie Bamber · Katee Sackhoff

Plot TV Series (2004-2009). 4 Seasons. 74 Episodes. Sci-Fi. Entering these words is an act of optimism. The human race, in its entirety, now numbers only 50,000 souls. In a single...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Jean Arthur · Claude Rains · Edward Arnold

Plot Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Irene Papas · Jacques Perrin

Plot In a country ruled by a fragile democracy where the police and the military are set on erradicating all threats from the political left, a member of the parliamentary opposition...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Vassilli Nikandrov · Boris Livanov · Eduard Tissé · Nikolai Podvoisky

Plot In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace...

Direction Angus Gibson · Jo Menell

Plot A vibrantly presented and emotionally charged portrait of the dynamic African leader, this needed tighter narration to close informational gaps. For instance, there is very little mention of F.W. de...

Direction Kim Bartley · Donnacha O'Briain

Cast Hugo Chávez

Plot Hugo Chávez elected president of Venezuela in 1998, is a colorful, unpredictable folk hero, beloved by his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that...