Rapt (2009), Bigger, Stronger, Faster (2008), No End in Sight (2007), What Is Democracy? (2018), Mike Wallace Is Here (2019), RKO 281 (1999), Revelations: Paradise Lost 2 (2000), The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Media movies.
Storyline: Philandering industrialist Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal) is kidnapped, with his ransom set at 50 million euros. After his finger is chopped off to prove the abductors' seriousness, his wife, Francoise (Anne Consigny), meets with the board of directors to discuss how to raise the money quickly -- but evidence of Stanislas' adultery and gambling make the company reluctant to pay. As rumors spread that Stanislas staged the kidnapping to take care of his debts, public sentiment turns against him.
Plot Keywords: kidnapping, crime, drama, thriller, french film, based on true events, wealthy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary presents the pervasive use of steroids in sports as an indication of the American obsession with winning at all costs. The Bell brothers have been sucked into the world of performance-enhancing drugs, thinking this is their ticket to realizing the American dream. Interviews with politicians, doctors, bodybuilders and coaches raise the question: Do the ends really justify the means? Because in the mad dash to win, an entire culture may be poised to lose.
Plot Keywords: documentary, sports, usa, family, brothers, health, ethics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary film takes a critical look at the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the war that followed. The film includes extensive interviews with various military and government officials, many of whom worked under President George W. Bush during the beginning of the Iraq war. Filmmaker Charles Ferguson uses these first-hand accounts to suggest that the Bush administration, as well as the provisional government they instated in Iraq, have made crucial, irresponsible errors.
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, politics, usa, occupation, conflict, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This reflection on democracy spans millennia and continents, from ancient Athens' groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism's roots in medieval Italy.
Plot Keywords: democracy, politics, society, philosophy, history, government, freedom ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For over half a century, "60 Minutes" fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Mike's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today's precarious tipping point.
Plot Keywords: documentary, journalism, interview, media, television, investigation, biography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Orson Welles (Liev Schreiber), all charisma and stubborn vision, is signed to direct films for RKO Pictures with a startling amount of creative freedom. Welles decides to make production number 281 a disguised biopic of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst (James Cromwell), a film which would come to be known as "Citizen Kane." But Welles doesn't understand just how much clout Hearst yields. When he gets word of the unflattering production, Hearst does everything in his power to stop it.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, hollywood, film production, media, power struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky chronicle the appeals process of three men indicted for the murders of three children in Robin Hood Hills.
Plot Keywords: crime, documentary, true story, murder, courtroom, legal, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Melvin G. Ashton (William Powell) is a crooked U.S. senator embarking on a campaign for the presidency. Ashton is a political buffoon, but he blackmails the party leaders to support his candidacy with his secret diary, which chronicles years of political corruption that, if made public, would destroy the success of his party and the careers of many. Enemies from a variety of sources attempt to steal the diary and prevent Ashton's rise to the nation's highest office.
Plot Keywords: political satire, comedy, black comedy, scandal, election, corruption, media ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmakers examine the role of Ohio in the 2004 presidential election and present the American electoral process through the eyes of voters, politicians and activists. Republican and Democratic campaign strategists and officials all attempt to swing the election their way by pushing hot-button issues to the forefront.
Plot Keywords: documentary, politics, election, democracy, democratic party, media, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Louis Theroux is denied admittance into the Church of Scientology's headquarters, setting into motion a clever, confrontational and funny plan to try and reveal the inner workings of the mysterious organization.
Plot Keywords: documentary, religion, investigation, exposé, controversy, belief, mind control ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 2011, longtime Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is charged with multiple counts of child sex abuse, rocking the small town of State College, Pa.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, documentary, true story, scandal, investigation, usa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary begins with an unusual detail that came from the 14th Amendment: Under constitutional law, corporations are seen as individuals. So, filmmaker Mark Achbar asks, what type of person would a corporation be? The evidence, according to such political activists as Noam Chomsky and filmmaker Michael Moore and company heads like carpet magnate Ray Anderson, points to a bad one, as the film aims to expose IBM's Nazi ties and these large businesses' exploitation of human rights.
Plot Keywords: documentary, capitalism, globalization, social critique, business ethics, law, psychology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Though considered unqualified, Harry S. Truman (Gary Sinise) becomes the 33rd president following the April 1945 death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Plot Keywords: drama, science fiction, psychological, suspense, human nature, social, philosophical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An image maker (Peter Boyle) grooms the son (Robert Redford) of a political boss (Melvyn Douglas) for a token bid in a U.S. Senate race.
Plot Keywords: political, satire, election, american politics, media, democracy, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fundamentalist Islam and neo-conservatism seem to be at odds, but filmmaker Adam Curtis asserts that the two have more in common than one might think. In this documentary, Curtis compares the outlooks of American academic Leo Strauss and Egyptian civil servant Sayyid Qutb, each of whom rebelled against American individualism to form their respective movements. Their shared message is that fear unites, be it during the Cold War or today's War on Terror.
Plot Keywords: politics, documentary, terrorism, cold war, propaganda, ideology, power ...
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