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Politics: 627 Films to Buy & Rent

 
We Were StrangersWe Were Strangers (1949)
Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz…
Adventure drama with Jennifer Jones playing a woman who joins the Cuban Underground and helps devise a plot to bring down the country's corrupt…
State of the UnionState of the Union (1948)
Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Angela Lansbury
An idealistic industrialist is urged to run for President, but finds uncomfortable compromises are required on both a political and marital level.…
Farmer's Daughter, TheFarmer's Daughter, The (1947)
Dir. H.C. Potter
Feat. Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore…
Congressman Joseph Cotton's maid, Loretta Young, decides to run against him in the next election. A perceptive comedy that won an Oscar for Young.
Trial at NurembergTrial at Nuremberg (1947)
Dir. Jack Kaufman
Actual footage of the historic war crime hearings in which Goering, Hess and 19 other SS Nazi leaders would be brought to trial over 217 days at the…
Years Between, TheYears Between, The (1946)
Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Dame Flora Robson
Michael Redgrave plays a British MI6 officer who returns home after working for the French Resistance to find that his wife, who had presumed him…
Native LandNative Land (1942) Recommended
Dir. Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand
Impassioned and authentic, this landmark film call for social revolution in Depression–era America blends vivid re–anactments with actual…
Meet John DoeMeet John Doe (1941)
Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan…
Always partial to a ripe political parable, dir. Capra has Barbara Stanwyck leading hickster Gary Cooper around by the nose on a national goodwill…
Great Dictator, TheGreat Dictator, The (1940) Aro Favourite
Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin
Chaplin's brave subversive satire in which he inhabits dual roles – dictator Adenoid Hynkle and a Jewish barber – for his damning…
Great McGinty, TheGreat McGinty, The (1940)
Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest…
The first film with Preston Sturges both scripting and directing, this dryly wacky political satire sees cynical bum Donlevy rise to the heights of…
Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonMr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Recommended
Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. James Stewart, Jean Arthur
Another brilliant comic parable from Frank Capra, in the wake of MR. DEEDS. The endearing Jimmy Stewart plays a young idealist who discovers the…

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