Highest-Rated Movies about 'Us Government'

Control Room (2004), American Made (2017), Spartan (2004), Mars Attacks! (1996), The 49th Man (1953), The Whip Hand (1951), The Peacemaker (1997), Apollo 18 (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Us Government movies.

#1. Control Room (2004)

Storyline: A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.—Sujit R. Varma

Plot Keywords: documentary, journalism, war, media, iraq war, propaganda, truth ...

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#2. American Made (2017)

Storyline: Barry Seal was just an ordinary pilot who worked for TWA before he was recruited by the CIA in 1978. His work in South America eventually caught the eye of the Medellín Cartel, associated with Pablo Escobar, who needed a man with his skill set. Barry became a drug trafficker, gun smuggler and money launderer. Soon acquiring the title, 'The gringo that always delivers'.

Plot Keywords: action, adventure, comedy, crime, drama, biography, history ...

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#3. Spartan (2004)

Storyline: In the US-government's special ops, Scott is a shooter, not a planner, doing the job without regard to quaint or obsolete convention. When a Harvard undergrad goes missing (the daughter of a US leader), it's Scott who applies the pressure, first to her boyfriend, then to a madam whose cathouse is the initial stop en route to a white slavery auction in Dubai. The abductors may not know the girl's identity, but once they figure it out, she's doomed. Deadly double crosses force Scott to become a planner. Through it all, earnest TV newscasters read the drivel they're handed.

Plot Keywords: action, thriller, military, political, conspiracy, mystery, crime ...

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#4. Mars Attacks! (1996)

Storyline: It is a normal day for everyone, until President of the United States James Dale (Jack Nicholson) announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth. The Martians land and a meeting is arranged, but not everything goes to plan, and the Martians seem to have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings or do they really want to destroy all of humanity?

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, alien invasion, black comedy, disaster, action, satire ...

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#5. The 49th Man (1953)

Storyline: U.S.Security Investigation Division chief Paul Reagan (Richard Denning) assigns John Williams (John Ireland) to hunt down a subversive group that has been smuggling A-bomb parts into the United States in specially designed cases. Williams traces the ring to Marseilles, France, where he meets Margo Wayne (Suzanne Dalbert) at a waterfront café and discovers she is part of the plot. When recalled by Reagan, Williams is informed that he has been engaged in a "war games" security check to test America's atomic defense, but he proves to Reagan that enemy agents are actually using the "war games" as a front to smuggle an A-bomb into the country.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: spy, cold war, nuclear weapons, military, covert operations, mystery, thriller ...

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#6. The Whip Hand (1951)

Storyline: Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it, but Corbin learns that a group of former-Nazis-turned-Communists have purchased a lodge on an island in the middle of the fish-killing lake, and have built some kind of laboratory. Never one to pass up a chance to sell a story to a magazine, Matt decides to investigate. His only ally is Janet Keller, the sister of the local doctor who has been caught up in whatever those nefarious Commie-Nazis are up to. What they are up to, with Soviet financing, is the development of diseases to use in bacteriological warfare against the United States, starting right there in Minnesota.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net

Plot Keywords: thriller, spy, cold war, mystery, film noir, crime, conspiracy ...

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#7. The Peacemaker (1997)

Storyline: Two trains crash somewhere in Russia, one carrying a nuclear payload. A nuclear explosion follows the crash and the world is on alert... However, White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly doesn't think it was an accident... Special Operations Intelligence Officer Colonel Thomas Devoe doesn't think so either... Together they must unravel a conspiracy that goes from Europe to New York, to stop a terrorist who has no demands...

Plot Keywords: action, thriller, spy, nuclear weapons, terrorism, military, political ...

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#8. Apollo 18 (2011)

Storyline: Cmndr Walker, Cptn. Anderson and Lt. Col. Grey are assigned to a secret mission to the moon. Walker and Anderson land, while Grey stays in orbit. As they collect samples, they find footprints...and the body of a Soviet cosmonaut on the moon. Soon they hear weird noises andv find they're not alone.

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, horror, thriller, found footage, space, moon, conspiracy ...

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#9. Mach 2 (2000)

Storyline: A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been trying to revive the American economy by causing a war in the Balkans. He plans to show it to both sides in the hopes of ending the situation. However, Secret Service agents hijack the Concorde he is on and kill the pilots. It's up to an Air Force officer, nicknamed "Washout" because he can't fly a plane, to land the Concorde.—Leigh Roche

Plot Keywords: action, sci-fi, adventure, speed, pilot, military, stunts ...

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#10. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War (2004)

Storyline: The Bush administration's decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003 is scrutinized in this documentary. According to several of the military, diplomatic and intelligence insiders in the film, some Bush staffers knowingly misled the public when they claimed that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was close to acquiring weapons of mass destruction. The documentary also suggests that the press too often took the Bush administration at its word instead of investigating the White House's contentions.

Plot Keywords: documentary, iraq war, politics, investigation, truth, war crimes, military ...

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