The Cuban Missile crisis gets the Hollywood treatment. This excellent brink-of-nuclear-war political thriller from director Roger Donaldson is an unapologetic eulogy to the Kennedy brothers and the glamour of their ‘Camelot’ period in office
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W. (2008)
Light-hearted take-down of possibly America’s dumbest President. Josh Brolin is the hapless heir to the Bush political machine
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House (2017)
Nobody knew who Deep Throat was. Well, now we do! It was this guy, and he’s played with steely gravitas by Liam Neeson in this low-key but effective expose
George Wallace (1997)
Well-made miniseries about probably the most controversial figure in recent American history
Snowden (2016) & Citizenfour (2014)
These films should probably be required viewing in every school in the world. Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ is the movie version, Laura Poitras ‘Citizenfour’ is the original Oscar-winning doco
Veep (2012-2019)
Epic and unprecedented mock fly-on-the-wall sitcom that purports to pull back the curtain on the White House corridors of power and show you what’s really going on
Chappaquiddick (2017)
This is a pretty average retelling of the 1969 scandal that ended the Kennedy brothers’ domination of the Democratic presidential scene
The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
Fantastic play-by-play of a forgotten incident in modern American history. This movie covers the immediate response and aftermath to the 1981 shooting of newly-elected US President Ronald Reagan
Trumped (2017)
The name of this doco alone makes it essential viewing for anyone interested in the 2016 US Presidential election. It was apparently hastily assembled in the wake of the shock result, from footage captured for Showtime’s series ‘the Circus’