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Rental > Politics: 563 Films to Rent on DVD
Shut Up and Sing (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck
- Politics ("shut up") and music ("sing") find themselves reluctantly linked in this portrait of country superstars, "The Dixie Chicks", and the…
State Within, The (TV Series) (2006)
- Dir. Daniel Percival
Feat. Jason Isaacs, Ben Daniels, Sharon Gless
- Gripping political series centred on the British Ambassador to Washington who finds himself entangled in the midst of political scandal after a plane…
US vs. John Lennon, The (2006)
- Dir. David Leaf, John Scheinfeld
- Compelling exposition of the political persecution of outspoken, anti–war Beatle, John Lennon by the Nixon–led US government.
While…
When the Levees Broke - A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Spike Lee
- Powerful, enraging chronicle of this century’s first great natural disaster, and the man–made catastrophe that unfolded post–Hurricane…
Wind That Shakes the Barley, The (2006)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney
- Thoroughly gripping Cannes winner from "kitchen sink" exponent Ken Loach, retelling with parochial force Ireland's tumultuous twenties, where the…
American Dad (TV Series) (2005)
- More politically–inclined satire from the creator of THE FAMILY GUY (Seth MacFarlane), set around a CIA operative with a very strange family…
Archangel (TV Mini-Series) (2005)
- Dir. Jon Jones
Feat. Daniel Craig, Yekaterina Rednikova
- Biting thriller based on the Robert Harris novel, with Daniel Craig taking on the role of an academic thrust into darkest post–war Russia to…
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson…
- Cillian Murphy glitters in this whimsical drama as an Irish transgender escort during the social and political upheaval of the 70s.
Despite the…
Churchill's Bodyguard (2005)
- Imposing, unprecedented memoir of the life and times of Winston Churchill, adapted from the diaries of his stoic bodyguard, Walter H.…
Commander in Chief (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Geena Davis, Donald Sutherland, Bruce Boxleitner…
- Excellent WEST WING–style political drama has Geena Davis depict an imagined first woman President of the USA, an independent senator who is…