Top 10 films with political themes
Politics is a resource of the handiest for the big screen. A genre like any other with a particularity: the protagonists are usually more expensive than a . icosahedron is usually quality films, usually based on real events and almost always with an elaborate plot in which power almost never too good. If there is a universal theme that knows neither borders nor language, is this. We all suffer, but not in silence, insurance survive this breed, along with cockroaches, to a nuclear war. As Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) said: “Whoever does not dare to be smart, it becomes political.” To watch the movies below online for free, click here.
1. All the King’s Men (The Politician, 1949): Robert Rossen is based on the novel by Robert Pen Warren magistrlamente narrate the rise and fall of an unscrupulous man whose oratory ability is their best quality.
2. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Red Phone Dr. Strangelove, 1964): The tandem Kubrick Sellers displays his enormous talent in this parody in which a general order in a of madness, a nuclear surprise air attack against the Soviet Union.
3. All the President’s Men (All the President’s Men, 1976): Two young Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman), begin to investigate the raid on the headquarters of the Democratic Party in Washington . His findings triggered the so-called ‘Watergate’.
4. The Candidate (Candidate, 1972): A young, idealistic lawyer (Robert Redford) begins his run up to presidential elections saying everything he thinks, because he knows positively that has no chance deser chosen. Never mind: only power that counts.
5. Bob Roberts (Bob Roberts, 1992): The folk singer Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins) announced his candidacy for the United States Senate from the state of Pennsylvania. The campaign appears to be a frame with economic, racist and military purposes.
6. Frost / Nixon (The Challenge Frost Nixon, 2008): Adaptation of the play by Peter Morgan about the series of interviews journalist David Frost and Nixon. During the three years following his departure from the White House, Nixon remained silent. However, in 1977, he agreed to grant only interview you for the story portrayed.
7. The Front (The Firm, 1976) . ironic and bitter from the famous’ witch hunt “ Hollywood Evocation The film was made by professionals who had been blacklisted: the director Martin Ritt, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and some actors like Zero Mostel, Lloyd Gough, Herschel Bernardi, etc. It is perhaps the first film of one of the largest producers, Columbia Pictures, which reported the matter.
8. Hidden (Hidden Agenda, 1990): Director Ken Loach takes one of his best works in this story set in Belfast and which demonstrates the position of human rights when a government puts its machinery in motion.
9. The Contender (2000): A masterful Joan Allen plays a senator whose political career unstoppable life crumbles to smack their secrets of youth when his name is chosen to be the vice president of the United States. His career falls apart when you discover that participated 'sex parties "in his younger years.
10. West of the White House (1999-2006) Wing: The great series of recent times. After seven seasons four consecutive years winning the Emmy Award for best drama, tells the daily life of the President of the United States, Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and his staff of the White House.Created and written by renowned writer Aaron Sorkin.