Film Series
Four More Years: An Election Special
Juicy scandals, outsized egos, and Machiavellian backroom deals: the high-stakes blood sport of the American electoral process makes for irresistible cinema. This election season, take a break from the 24/7 news cycle chatter with some of the all-time best films about the good, the bad, and the ugly of democracy in action.
This eerie Cold War thriller remains the ultimate nightmare vision of American politics.
This investigative thriller is one of the all-time great political and newspaper films.
Gore Vidal penned this caustic, behind-the-scenes look at a bitter nomination fight.
This Frank Capra classic is a populist political fable with a dark undercurrent.
Radical documentarian Emile de Antonio chronicles the tumultuous 1968 election.
These candid glimpses of the campaign trail are watershed works of ‘60s direct cinema.
Hal Ashby’s satirical sex farce brilliantly skewers free love sexual politics.
Robert Redford stars in this incisive, warts-and-all satire of the electoral process.
Cinematographer Haskell Wexler’s debut is a landmark of independent film.
Robert Altman’s eccentric masterpiece is a sprawling portrait of 1970s America.
Pioneering video collective TVTV captures the 1972 Democratic and Republican Conventions.
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn light up this snappy Frank Capra seriocomedy.
Director-star Warren Beatty unleashes a nihilistic kiss-off to America’s broken government.
This acidly funny satire of political media manipulation is a Network for the 90s.
This vérité documentary goes behind the scenes of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential bid.
A Secret Service agent faces off against an assassin in this taut cat-and-mouse thriller.
John Travolta does his best Bill Clinton in Mike Nichols’ brilliant political satire.
This documentary gets the scoop on the book the Bush family doesn’t want you to read.
Presidential candidates get caught in awkward moments in this 1992 documentary.