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1. Geostorm (2017)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.
Director: Dean Devlin | Stars: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara
Votes: 118,669 | Gross: $33.70M
2. Bombshell (I) (2019)
R | 109 min | Biography, Drama
A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow
Votes: 127,050
3. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
R | 129 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Director: Aaron Sorkin | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong
Votes: 193,611
4. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
R | 145 min | Biography, Drama, War
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Tom Cruise, Bryan Larkin, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava
Votes: 116,092 | Gross: $70.00M
5. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
R | 95 min | Comedy
Borat returns to America from Kazakhstan to America, this time to reveal more about the American culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.
Director: Jason Woliner | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks, Dani Popescu
Votes: 153,943
6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Drama, Western
A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin
Votes: 82,411
7. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 79,915
8. Gaslit (2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History
A modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal centering on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time.
Stars: Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Dan Stevens, Betty Gilpin
Votes: 7,646
9. Reds (1981)
PG | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski
Votes: 24,735 | Gross: $40.38M
10. LBJ (2016)
R | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History
Lyndon B. Johnson aligns himself with John F. Kennedy, rises to the Presidency, and deals with the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Michael Stahl-David, Richard Jenkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Votes: 7,717 | Gross: $2.47M
11. Game Change (2012 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCain's running mate in the 2008 Presidential election.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Ed Harris, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Peter MacNicol
Votes: 23,231
12. Medium Cool (1969)
R | 111 min | Drama
A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Director: Haskell Wexler | Stars: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill
Votes: 4,717 | Gross: $1.48M
13. Warm Springs (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama
The stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Tim Blake Nelson
Votes: 3,330
14. The Best Man (1964)
Approved | 102 min | Drama
The two front runners for their party's presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former president's endorsement.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton
Votes: 3,733
15. Gonzo (2008)
R | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Joe Cairo, David Carlo
Votes: 8,506 | Gross: $1.25M
16. Forbidden (1932)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson
Votes: 1,704
17. Best of Enemies (2015)
R | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary on the series of televised debates in 1968 between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley.
Directors: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville | Stars: Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley, Dick Cavett, Noam Chomsky
Votes: 6,499 | Gross: $0.89M
18. Chicago 10 (2007)
R | 110 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Director: Brett Morgen | Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Nick Nolte, Roy Scheider, Hank Azaria
Votes: 1,429 | Gross: $0.18M
19. Wilson (1944)
Passed | 154 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 1,698 | Gross: $2.00M
20. Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
Not Rated | 144 min | Biography, Drama
After a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.
Director: Vincent J. Donehue | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen
Votes: 1,509
21. The Last Party (1993)
R | 96 min | Documentary, History
Robert Downey, Jr. gives reports and interviews with other stars in this documentary about the Democratic National Convention in 1992.
Directors: Mark Benjamin, Marc Levin | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Bill Clinton, Ann Palmer, Hilary Anderson
Votes: 660
22. The War at Home (1979)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History, Music
Interviews with people involved with and leading the Madison, Wisconsin area resistance to the Vietnam war.
Directors: Barry Alexander Brown, Glenn Silber | Stars: Karleton Armstrong, Betty Boardman, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Haslach
Votes: 285
23. Pursuit (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Drama, Thriller
A political extremist plans to spread stolen nerve gas in a city where a political convention is being held. Government agents are sent to catch him.
Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Ben Gazzara, E.G. Marshall, William Windom, Joseph Wiseman
Votes: 537
24. The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)
R | 107 min | Drama
James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) has made a career out of journalism. Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers in the middle of the dispute-ridden British homeland at the time of the Falklands War.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, William Maxwell, Paul Jesson, Andy Rashleigh
Votes: 497
25. H2O (2004)
177 min | Drama
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office and is drawn into a deceptive world of power and corruption.
Stars: Callum Keith Rennie, Michael Murphy, Barry Flatman, Louise Portal
Votes: 286
26. Planet America (2012– )
29 min | Talk-Show
The Chaser's Chas Licciardello and the ABC's John Barron set out to discover the real America - its politics and its people - with US and Australian experts coming along for the ride.
Stars: John Barron, Chas Licciardello, Jim Fallows, Howard Dean
Votes: 99
27. Last Party 2000 (2001)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
Political documentary about the 2000 United States presidential election. It examines the then-current state of American democracy, the issues handled by the typical political process, and ... See full summary »
Directors: Rebecca Chaiklin, Donovan Leitch Jr. | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Harper, Noam Chomsky, Harold Ford
Votes: 695
28. The Great Depression (1993– )
Documentary, History
Stars: Joe Morton, Gore Vidal, Ossie Davis, Maya Angelou
Votes: 37
29. This Revolution (2005)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
In this politically charged homage to Medium Cool, a photographer covers the urban guerrilla war on New York streets during the RNC.
Director: Stephen Marshall | Stars: Rosario Dawson, Nathan Crooker, Amy Redford, Brett DelBuono
Votes: 558
30. Three Dark Horses (1952)
17 min | Comedy, Short
A campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the presidential convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his candidate, Hammond Egger, is a crook. Enter the stooges as ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 386
31. Gay Republicans (2004 TV Movie)
63 min | Documentary
In 2004, Log Cabin -- the Gay Republican Club -- was put to the test. President Bush's unequivocal opposition to gay marriage presented them with a stark choice, whether to be good ... See full summary »
Director: Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Maurice Bonamigo, Carla Halbrook, Terry William Hamilton, Mark Harris
Votes: 115
32. America Is Hard to See (1970)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Emile de Antonio | Stars: Eugene McCarthy, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard N. Goodwin, Arthur Miller
Votes: 37
33. Prologue (I) (1970)
87 min | Drama
Presents the rival philosophies of young people, militant protest or communal retreat, set against the political upheaval of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Director: Robin Spry | Stars: John Robb, Elaine Malus, Gary Rader, Peter Cullen
Votes: 21
34. The Delegate (2006)
27 min | Documentary, Short
The story of a 21 year old (CA) female delegate to a national political convention.
Director: John Robert | Stars: Spiro Agnew, Bob Dole, David Eisenhower, Ethel Merman
35. The After Party: The Last Party 3 (2011)
64 min | Documentary, News, War
A documentary feature film about a cinematographer who is caught in a mass arrest. His film crew's videotape of the incident leads to a civil rights lawsuit, uncovers a police spying ring ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Schiller | Stars: André 3000, Mark Benjamin, Caty Borum, Jenna Bush Hager
Votes: 18
36. Convention (2009)
95 min | Documentary
A group of documentary filmmakers chronicle the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Director: AJ Schnack | Stars: Katherine Archuleta, Chantal Unfug, Guillermo Vidal, John Hickenlooper
Votes: 61
37. Growing Up in America (1988)
90 min | Documentary, History
Documentary on 1960s radicals in the U.S.A.
Director: Morley Markson | Stars: Don Cox, Allen Ginsberg, Fred Hampton Jr., Fred Hampton
Votes: 47
38. Conventioneers (2005)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
At the 2004 Republican Nation Convention, love blooms between a Republican delegate and a Democrat protesting the event.
Director: Mora Stephens | Stars: Basil, Adrian Blue, Jennifer Brown, Alison Cimmet
Votes: 199
39. Listen, America! (1968)
40 min | Short
Director: Edouard de Laurot | Stars: Edouard de Laurot, Rip Torn
Votes: 16
40. Look Out, Haskell, It's Real: The Making of 'Medium Cool' (2001 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Production history of Haskell Wexler's ground-breaking 1969 feature Medium Cool.
Director: Paul Cronin | Stars: Bill Ayers, Warren Beatty, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz
Votes: 45
41. Martian Space Party (1972)
28 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A concert film/mockumentary posing as live news coverage from the 1972 National Surrealist Party Convention, interupted by news flashes from Monster Island, where the president is denied ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Gillmor | Stars: Annalee Austin, Philip Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman
Votes: 25
42. The Unmaking of a Candidate (2019 Video)
15 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Mamoudou Athie, Matt Bai, Michael Beugg, Chris Coy
43. Reflections on a Leadership Convention (1978)
21 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Peter Raymont | Star: Peter Raymont
44. Democratic National Convention (2008 TV Special)
News
Director: Glenn Weiss | Stars: Hillary Clinton, Jay Nixon, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama
Votes: 23
45. 2020 Democratic National Convention (2020)
News
The 2020 Democratic National Convention is a presidential nominating convention held at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Stars: Joe Biden, Common, John Legend, Jill Biden
Votes: 99
46. Preacher with an Unknown God (2005)
17 min | Short, Comedy
Performance artist Reverend Billy and his choir travel as they exorcize California Big Boxes and New York City Republicans.
Director: Rob VanAlkemade | Stars: Reverend Billy, Savitri Durkee, Stop Big Boxes Gospel Choir
Votes: 30
47. The 38th Republican National Convention (2004)
News
Delegates of the Republican Party choose nominees for President and Vice President.
Stars: Gwen Ifill, Mark Shields, Judy Woodruff
48. The 40th Republican National Convention (2012 TV Special)
News
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gwen Ifill, Condoleezza Rice, Mitt Romney
Votes: 19
49.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
(1994)
TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and work of Allen Ginsberg, the greatest of the Beat Generation poets is put in focus in this film
Director: Jerry Aronson | Stars: Joan Baez, William F. Buckley, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 286 | Gross: $0.00M
50.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Letter of Credit
(1960)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Henry Taylor visits the town of Kirkland where, three years before, a bank employee, Arnold Mathias, had been convicted of stealing $200,000 from the bank where he worked. None of the money... See full summary »
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Sweeney, Robert Bray, Ronald Nicholas
Votes: 419