Subgenre Sampler
Politics: 627 Films to Buy & Rent
Show Me a Hero (TV Mini-Series) (2015)
- Dir. Paul Haggis
Feat. Oscar Isaac, Peter Riegert, Alfred Molina…
- Extraordinary true story of the political fight to build public housing in white middle–class neighbourhoods in 1980's New York. From the…
Truth (2015)
- Dir. James Vanderbilt
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace…
- A multi–layered and incrementally tense newsroom docudrama that captures the controversy that befell Dan Rather and CBS after they broadcast an…
Welcome to Leith (2015)
- Dir. Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker
- A living nightmare unfolds for the townsfolk of the North Dakota town of Leith (pop. 24) when a notorious white supremacist moves in with a nefarious…
Where to Invade Next (2015)
- Dir. Michael Moore
- A good–natured comic polemic from film–maker Michael Moore, who this time "invades" a host of European nations in pursuit of progressive,…
Zipper (2015)
- Dir. Mora Stephens
Feat. Patrick Wilson, Lena Headey, Ray Winstone…
- Political drama about a federal prosecutor whose sexual promiscuity threatens to destroy his political future and his life.
Blue Eyes (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Linus Wahlgren, Sven Nordin, Louise Peterhoff
- A chief of staff at the Swedish justice department goes missing in the weeks leading up to the national election, and her replacement uncovers a…
Case Against 8, The (2014)
- This HBO documentary goes behind the scenes inside the groundbreaking case to overturn the ban on same–sex marriage in the state of California.…
Green Prince, The (2014)
- Dir. Nadav Schirman
- Absorbing account of how a son of a founding leader in the Palestinian organization, Hamas, became a spy for the Israelis.
Honourable Woman, The (TV Mini-series) (2014)
- Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Rea, Lubna Azabal…
- A rigorous, fast–paced thriller with Maggie Gyllenhaal as a woman who inherits her father's arms business, and finds herself in a international…
House of Cards - Season 2 (TV Series, US) (2014)
- Feat. Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate Mara…
- Further episodes in the shadowy revival of the classic BBC political series, with Kevin Spacey (perfectly cast) as a machiavellian congressman…