Woah this is a biggie! Not for the faint-hearted, this deep dive, intellectual miniseries brings the real story from the Nixon administration to the small screen with the crossover genius that only 1977 seems able to provide. Based on John Ehrlichman’s novelised expose ’The Company’, this is supposedly what really happened. It starts off incrediblyContinue reading “Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977)”
Category Archives: Politics
Dreams From My Real Father (2012)
While as far as I know no mainstream documentary has tackled ‘Michaelgate’ yet, this astonishing expose of the real parentage and background of the enigmatic ‘Barry Soetoro’ is as audacious as it is hard to refute. The visual evidence alone is devastating. Barack Obama was elected in 2008 on a massive wave of optimism, followedContinue reading “Dreams From My Real Father (2012)”
Margin Call (2011) & Inside Job (2010)
The story of the ‘Greenspan Crash’ of 2008 seems complicated and there are a lot of details, but after watching this double-bill you will see that it is really quite simple: deregulation -> greed -> bailout -> massive Government corruption
Selma (2014)
Comprehensive coverage of the high-water mark of the sixties Civil Rights movement
The Front Runner (2018)
A highly electable candidate in the mould of a Kennedy or even Andrew Jackson, Gary Hart was all set to become the Democratic nominee for the 1988 Presidential election, and it seemed like there would be no stopping him, until this happened
Reagan (2011)
A straight, in-depth analysis of the life of this man, one of the symbols of the Twentieth Century
The Comey Rule (2020)
This is a clinical and methodical if somewhat TLDR exposition of the procedures within the FBI as it dealt with issues surrounding the 2016 Presidential election
Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Survivalists (1998)
Louis rides shotgun with a bunch of Christian militia in the Pacific Northwest and then makes a foray into the world of white supremacists
Get Me Roger Stone (2017)
Roger Stone is probably the most colorful character in American politics, and extraordinarily has been for 50 years
Spotlight (2015)
What can you say about Spotlight? If you haven’t seen it, go and watch it immediately!