The War Room (1993), ...So Goes the Nation (2006), Storm Over Asia (1928), Wag the Dog (1997), Birthright: A War Story (2017), A Perfect Candidate (1996), Bob Roberts (1992), Red Corner (1997) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Political Propaganda movies.
Storyline: Given unprecedented access, documentary filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker Chris Hegedus follow part of the 1992 Clinton campaign for president. During the New Hampshire primary, the campaign hits some stumbling blocks, chief among them the Gennifer Flowers scandal, but nevertheless manages to pull out a second-place finish. From there, strategists George Stephanopoulos and James Carville repair to national campaign headquarters in Little Rock to monitor the remaining duration of the campaign.
Plot Keywords: politics, documentary, behind the scenes, democratic party, media manipulation, real events, american politics ...
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: Lowly Mongolian trapper Bair (Valery Inkijinoff), shunned by his fellow trappers for fighting with a trader, flees his trading post and joins the Soviet partisans trying to oust the occupying British forces. After Bair is captured and shot by the British, they find an amulet on him suggesting he is descended from Genghis Khan. The soldiers nurse Bair back to health and use him to establish a puppet government, not realizing their plan will backfire when the puppet breaks his strings.
Plot Keywords: silent film, historical drama, imperialism, colonialism, class struggle, 1920s, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisers contacts a top Hollywood producer in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media.
Plot Keywords: political satire, black comedy, media manipulation, war propaganda, hollywood, public opinion, crisis management ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Women are being jailed, physically violated and at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.
Plot Keywords: documentary, women's rights, social justice, human rights, gender equality, social movements, social change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The filmmakers follow Oliver North's unsuccessful 1994 bid for a Virginia Senate seat, focusing on North's campaign strategist, Mark Goodin, and a Washington Post reporter. Mudslinging ensues.—Mike D'Angelo <mqd8478@is2.nyu.edu>
Plot Keywords: political documentary, documentary style, political satire, political scandal, political propaganda ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary-style look at the fictional Senatorial campaign of Bob Roberts, an arch-conservative folk singer turned politician. This political satire includes several original songs co-written and performed by writer/director/star Tim Robbins, and cameo appearances by other stars as reporters and news anchors.
Plot Keywords: political satire, mockumentary, american politics, corruption, media manipulation, social commentary, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jack Moore is an American attorney having talks in Bejing about founding the first satellite TV joint venture. Suddenly he is arrested, accused of murder and has to prove it was a frame-up together with his court-appointed attorney Shen Yuelin.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, legal drama, justice system, cultural clash, international relations, courtroom drama, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Democratic strategist helps a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.
Plot Keywords: political satire, comedy, american politics, election, democracy, democratic party, small-town life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1920, in Central Europe, the tyrannical king of an Empire is visiting the small town of Waldheim. While a group of revolutionaries plot to kill the despotic king, his oppressive secret service, leaded by Avanti, and the police force, leaded by Police Chief Hunt, organize his reception. Svetlana Vargas, a member of a bourgeois family and abused by her employee Emile, is in charge to organize the attempt against the king.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: political, historical, revolution, communism, ideology, propaganda, documentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary look at Morty Fineman, a prolific maker of schlock independent films, who's down on his luck. Actors, directors, and writers, including Ron Howard and Karen Black, comment on his work, we see clips from some of his 427 titles, and we watch Morty try to get financing for a film about a serial killer. He hires his daughter, Paloma, as his business manager. His A.D., the long-suffering Ivan, stays by his side. Morty owes the bank $10 million from his one blockbuster failure. Can he find the financing, or is it time for Morty to retire. Meanwhile, Ivan hooks Morty up with a new film festival, in Chaparral, Nevada. Is this the ticket to renewal?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: political, comedy, independent film, election, media, satire, american politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Mission to Moscow" was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the political machinations in Moscow just before the start of the war and presents Stalin's Russia in a very favorable light. So much so, that the movie was cited years later by the House Un-American Activities Commission and was largely responsible for the screenwriter, Howard Koch being Blacklisted.—E. Barry Bruyea <siber@bigfoot.com>
Plot Keywords: war film, world war ii, political, diplomacy, usa, soviet union, documentary style ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young people (Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Lillian Miles) go from marijuana to wild piano playing, hysteria and death.
Plot Keywords: moral panic, american film, independent film, cult film, social issues, black comedy, crime drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cuba's embracement of Communism is honored in four vignettes dramatizing life before Fidel Castro and the revolution.
Plot Keywords: black and white, epic, historical drama, collectivism, cold war era, class struggle, collective memory ...
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